You know what pulp is, Mr. Tallis? It’s the flesh of a luscious fruit, mashed down into an incredible, half liquid richness. so saturated with flavor that it fills your whole body, not just your...

The instruction here is not for every kind of writer – not for the writer of nurse books or thrillers or porno or the cheaper sort of sci-fi – though it is true that what...

From the first she showed a curious sensitivity to what, I suppose, may be called the ‘influences’ of the place. She said it ‘smelled’ of ghosts and warlocks.

Ezekiel 25:17. “The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and...

When the gap between the world of the city and the world my grandfather had presented to me as right and good became too wide and depressing to tolerate, I’d turn to my other great...

(I’m not online.) I don’t have a fax. I don’t go in for any of that stuff. The typewriter is as far as I went.

Here’s a thought. You answer what I ask and I keep not killing you.” – Antiope Flint – DREAMNASIUM

All those years of lurid magazine covers showing extremely nubile females being menaced in three distinct colors by assorted monstrosities; those horror movies, those invasion-from-outer-space novels, those Sunday supplement fright splashes—all those sturdy psychological ruts...

Kandinski looked up. ‘Do you read science fiction?’ he asked matter-of-factly.’Not as a rule,’ Ward admitted. When Kandinski said nothing he went on: ‘Perhaps I’m too skeptical, but I can’t take it too seriously.’Kandinski pulled...

In Hamilton’s The Universe Wreckers… it was in that novel that, for the first time, I learned Neptune had a satellite named Triton… It was from The Drums of Tapajos that I first learned there...

Havens turned again.Someone else passed between the trucks. That someone walked with less purpose than the other workers near the stalls. To Havens this meant a surveillance asset was on him and it probably was...

That was enough dialogue for a few pages – he had to get into some fast, red-hot action.There weren’t any more hitches now. The story flowed like a torrent. The margin bell chimed almost staccato,...

I like stories about supervillains. They teach children that you can accomplish great things even when the whole world is against you.

Cherchez la femme, Bucky. Remember that.