James Nicoll Quotes

I have hated every Kress I read, especially this one, but the Bear is a standard Bear and if you like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing you'll like.

I don't mind hidden depths but I insist that there be a surface.

I believe that I have now experienced the lifetime maximum exposure to bottom spanking in fantasy novels.

Never bring a gun to a fight where the other guy has a time-machine and tomorrow's newspapers.

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

[Elizabeth Moon's] antagonists are always evil moustache-twirlers. She could write a book about a golf open and the main rival to the hero would turn out to have clubs made from compressed kittens.

It's bad to wake up and see a large cat in mid-leap from the rough vicinity of the ceiling.

Ben Bova seems to work very hard at working in new discoveries into his Glum Future but alas, his future is glum and not that well written.

Gun-wielding recluse gunned down by local police" isn't the epitaph I want. I am hoping for "Witnesses reported the sound up to two hundred kilometers away" or "Last body part finally located".

Call me an extremist but killing a few hundred million people seems like the sort of method that might have unintended consequences.

About Antrax by Terry Brooks: I wonder if he's planning a book called SRS? Or F'lu?

Manitoba ... Not sure what to do about them. Restock the province with megafauna and encourage tourism, I think. How quickly can we breed back the saber-toothed cats?

You may have trouble getting permission to aero or lithobrake asteroids on Earth.

About First Landing by Robert Zubrin: Someday I'd like to read a story about competent people on Mars.

Whenever I find my will to live becoming too strong, I read Peter Watts

Romeo and Juliet *died*. I always liked that in a teen romance story.