Mark Schiffer

“(Cast your mind back to a time when kids like us had figured out the internet but people old enough to own property hadn’t, so instead of browsing classifieds our bandwidth went entirely to downloading all the music in the world.)”
― Aaron A. Reed, Subcutanean 30287

“I do not know how better to express my feelings about it than by saying that I hated it for starving and humiliating me and loved it because it was my home, hated and loved it because it was the exemplar of old things, because it was weak, and because it seemed indestructible.”
― Gene Wolfe, Shadow & Claw

“she had borrowed hope at a ruinous interest rate—one that she had no chance of paying back. She”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Doors of Eden

“Having a world unfold in one’s head is the fundamental SF experience. It’s a lot of what I read for. Delany has a long passage about how your brain expands while reading the sentence “The red sun is high, the blue low”—how it fills in doubled purple shadows on the planet of a binary star. I think it goes beyond that, beyond the physical into the delight of reading about people who come from other societies and have different expectations.”
― Jo Walton, What Makes This Book So Great: Re-Reading the Classics of Science Fiction and Fantasy