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August 5, 2012

Quote – Canadian Science Fiction is varied

“By now, it should be no secret that there are such things as Canadian science fiction writers; that there is a Canadian science fiction. And by now, we are perhaps beginning to realise that it’s not monolithic, but as varied as the writers who create it.” -Nalo Hopkinson – Final Thoughts (in Tesseracts Nine. Edge, Calgary, 2005)

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August 4, 2012

Quote – Alien and Similar

“They are awesome in their alienness, profound in their similarity to us.” -Terence M. Green – The Woman Who Is The Midnight Wind  (In Tesseracts)

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August 3, 2012

Quote – open mind

“As long as you keep your mind open you will learn.” -Gerry Truscott – Cee (In Tesseracts)

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July 31, 2012

Quote – Time is Nothing but a Wind

“Time is nothing but a wind that blows clean through you.  The only thing you catch from it is a goddamn cold that will kill you in the end.” -Steve Vernon – Sudden Death Overtime (Crossroad Press, 2012)

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July 30, 2012

Quote – Promises like waves

“So many promises washed up like waves on the rocky beach, only to be pulled away just as fast.” -Steve Vernon – Sudden Death Overtime

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July 26, 2012

Quote – All humorous

“It’s all humorous to him, even annoyance.” -Ven Begamudre – Out of Sync (In So Long Been Dreaming. Arsenal Pulp Press. Vancouver, 2004)

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July 25, 2012

Quote – Not learning about aliens, learning about self

“I have learned something here. Not about aliens. About myself.” – Terence M. Green – The Woman Who Is The Midnight Wind  (In Tesseracts)

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July 24, 2012

Quote – Technology interfering with Nature.

“Technology must never interfere with our Communion with the Mother, lest we forget the Covenant, grow too greedy, and destroy our new home.” -Celu Amberstone – Refugees (In So Long Been Dreaming. Arsenal Pulp Press. Vancouver, 2004)

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July 21, 2012

Quote – Questions Best Left To Science Fiction Writers

“It was one of those questions best left to philosophers and science fiction writers.” -Drew Hayden Taylor – The Night Wanderer

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July 20, 2012

Quote – Decisions Create Worlds

“Every time we make a decision, we make another world. We do one thing, and we’re in the world that decision called up, but at the same time, we didn’t do it, so we’re in that other world, too. It goes on forever, all these worlds..” -Charles de Lint – Many Worlds are Born Tonight. In The Very Best of...

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