“If you haven’t heard of a literary convention, as a fan, you are missing out on something that can change the way you look at reading...

“No costume is no costume.” Costuming Rules WorldCon 42, 1984 Dressing up like a favorite character from a favorite novel, movie,...

“Greetings, Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada. Are you...

“Never judge a cover by its book.” The Clarke/Duke Project Stanley Clarke & George Duke Book covers have a special place for me. They are...

“You don't live in the real world... You're like me. You live inside this illusion.”–Art3mis Ready Player One Ernest Kline Several days...

“Never tell me the odds!” Han Solo The Empire Strikes Back Board games have a history stretching back to Senet, a game dating from around...

“Drummer beat, and piper blow Harper strike, and soldier go” Anne McCaffery Dragonsong Music. A not-so-simple collection of sounds that...

“This whole Santa Claus thing just doesn't make sense. Why all the secrecy? Why all the mystery? If the guy exists why doesn't he ever...

“…There’ll be scary ghost stories and the tales of the glories of Christmases long, long ago.” “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year”...

“I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated.” Francis Ford Coppola Speculative fiction books have been a...

“Any technology, sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from magic.” “Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination” Arthur C....

“We are only constrained by the boundaries of our imagination” David Moffett Humans are storytellers. It’s one of the oldest and most...

January 2nd is celebrated as Science Fiction Day. It shares a date with the birthday of Isaac Asimov, who would have been 103 in 2023....