Showing posts with label Martha Wells. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Martha Wells. Show all posts

Sunday, August 17, 2025

Worldcon 2025: Quotable Quotes.

"I'm the brontosaurus of the party. You're talking about history - this is my life."

Robert Silverberg, author

‘“Mars is my planet.”

Bridget Landry, JPL engineer, retired. 

"People complained, 'They made it funny.' - I am funny!"

Martha Wells, author, on the Murderbot series adaptation

"I'm a terrible actor. I would have to be a dead body."

Martha Wells, on doing a cameo on Murderbot 

"If you enjoy this reading, you can't buy it yet."

Fonda Lee, author

"I started writing fantasy because writing science fiction was just reworking the fears of the day, I wasn't bringing anything new to that conversation. And it was DEPRESSING!"

Paolo Bacigalupi, author 

"I never had a brand."

Nancy Kress, author  

 
 "When I get a fantasy idea, I write it.  Sometimes I write it as science fiction, in which case I write two stories."

Larry Niven, author 

"When I was starting out, I tried to learn from other writers.  It's very hard to imitate Bradbury, he has a great talent for implying that there’s a story there."

Larry Niven, author 

"I helped invent a lot of elements in these and I hate them."

David Brin, author, regarding his cell phone.  

"I get hate mail from my 35 year old self and I don’t remember how I sent them: GET ON WITH IT, OLD MAN!!" 

David Brin, author, on whether he will write another Uplift novel

"My name is Olav Rokne, and as of last night I have lost the Hugo for best fanzine six times."

Olav Rokne, blogger 

"Why do Klingons only speak one language? Genocide." 

Olav Rokne, blogger 

"The future belongs to everyone."

Jordan S. Carroll, author, from his Hugo acceptance speech for Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right

- Sid