Science Fiction and Fantasy Quotes

Finding and keeping moments of wisdom, joy, and profundity from science fiction and fantasy texts

[Glyn Morgan @GR_Morgan]

Still can’t believe we finally open in two and a half weeks, let me know if you see one of our posters out in the wild!

[CRSF @CRSFteam]

Our #CFP for #CRSF2022!!

Theme: #Communication

@FantastikaPress @Modern_Folklore @SF_Quoter @BAFTSS_SFF @SFRAReview @sfranews @LitSciHub @GRACOHUM676 @OnceFantasies @study_fantastic @FantasyArtStudi @TheFantasyHive @BSFA

#RT #SHARE #SSF

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[The Arthur C. Clarke Award @ClarkeAward]

Take our reader survey of the year + prize draw to win a copy of our 2021 winner, The Animals In That Country by Laura Jean McKay

Take the survey: https://t.co/Qemh0pYo3g

[Glyn Morgan @GR_Morgan]

I have a new publication. My article "New ways: the pandemics of science fiction" appears in a special issue of @royalsociety journal Interface Focus as part of an #openaccess special issue on "COVID-19: science, history, culture and imagination": https://t.co/2Q6xbpAIk0

[Glyn Morgan @GR_Morgan]

How has science fiction engaged with pandemics? From Mary Shelley to @SarahPinsker, I look at a range of plagues as metaphor, as thought experiment, as narrative device, and suggest how such texts might be helpful in the way we think out disease, and societies.

[Chris Pak @Chrispak_]

How science fiction can inspire humanity’s response to the climate crisis – podcast https://t.co/MjXLjhtSGP via @ConversationUK

[Dr Anna McFarlane @mariettarosetta]

This is on Monday! Get a ticket either irl or online at the link #climatechange #COP26 #theDearGreenBothy

[Dr Anna McFarlane @mariettarosetta]

Beyond excited to be chairing this event with Kim Stanley Robinson @UofGlasgow , an event that speaks to #COP26 #COP26Glasgow. We'll be talking about Ministry for the Future, the climate crisis, literature at the end of the world...

[The Arthur C. Clarke Award @ClarkeAward]

We're delighted to announce that the winner of the 35th Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction book of the year will be revealed by @SamiraAhmedUK on BBC Radio 4's Front Row show on the evening of Monday 27th September

[Glyn Morgan @GR_Morgan]

I need to track down a hi-res image of this Egyptian film poster for رحلة الى القمر [Rehla ilal kamar], "Journey to the Moon", (1959) directed by Hamada Abdel Wahab. Anyone with better research skills, knowledge of Egyptian cinema or Arabic SF have any leads they could share?

[Glyn Morgan @GR_Morgan]

Do you have favourite sources for science fiction visuals? A site you keep bookmarked, or a well-thumbed book? Something that inspires your love of the genre, or challenges you to keep pushing your boundaries?

[Glyn Morgan @GR_Morgan]

"Flash from the Future" science fiction short fiction writing competition from @World_Museum and @LivUniEnglish, great for kids in particular with those three <18 competition strands: https://t.co/P7b3EGCU7i

[Anna Kavan Society @AnnaKavan]

'A mirage-like arctic splendour towered all around, a weird, unearthly architecture of ice. Huge ice-battlements, rainbow turrets and pinnacles, filled the sky, lit from within by frigid mineral fires.' Ice, 1967

[Anna Kavan Society @AnnaKavan]

‘An insane impatience for death was driving mankind to a second suicide ... I was profoundly depressed, left with a sense of waiting for something frightful to happen, a sort of mass execution. I looked at the natural world, and it seemed to share my feelings ...

[Rachel Hill @Spidernautics]

"Science fiction isn’t only about thinking about alternate technologies or science concepts...it’s also about re-fashioning or re-imagining our futures, and the way we live. Imagining, for instance, what if things weren’t this way?” (Vandana Singh)

[Glyn Morgan @GR_Morgan]

What object I would bring to a space gallery? I floundered but settled on Olaf Stapledon’s hand drawn timelines from Last and First Men (1930) and Starmaker (1937) Science Fiction Foundation collection in @LivUniSCA #SMGCultureSpace https://t.co/LpzMThdvMe

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

The future in space, painted by Ron Miller. https://t.co/kZH896H9H1

[Dublin2019 @Dublin2019]

Voting for the 2019 #HugoAwards and 1944 Retro Hugos will be closing soon! Remember to get your votes in before 8 a.m. (Irish time) on August 1 !

#Dublin2019

[Science Fiction and Fantasy Quotes @SF_Quoter]

'I think "majority" is one of my least favorite words. It's so often used to justify bad decisions' - Emma Newman @EmApocalyptic, PLANETFALL (2015)