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

“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

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

“Tolkien understood about the things that happen after the end. Because this is after the end, this is all the Scouring of the Shire, this is figuring out how to live in the time that wasn’t supposed to happen after the glorious last stand. I saved the world, or I think I did, and look, the world is still here, with sunsets and interlibrary loans.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others