“Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics - feel that [Kurt] Vonnegut started to repeat himself, to grow increasingly self-indulgent and meandering, and to sometimes just blather in his later work. But his books up to "Slaughterhouse-Five" do possess a distinctiveness that will insure some kind of permanence, if only in the history of the 1960s and of science fiction.” IfsFeelsWritingYearsKindBookSelfSometimesGrowsFictionFiveReaderHundredScience FictionCriticsDisappearOur TimeRepeats1960sPermanenceSelf IndulgentSlaughterhousesSlaughterhouse FiveBlather Author:Michael Dirda
“... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative perception which applies just as much now as it did in the fifty or hundred or two hundred years since the novel came to life.” YearsTwoTruthFictionQualityNovelPerceptionHundredUniversalFiftyTruth Of LifeImaginativeTruthfulness Author:Elizabeth Bowen
“The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth.” WorldYearsFirstsWarReasonTruthFictionTruth IsHundredFirst TimeStrangerWar Of The WorldsPeculiarWorld War IiWorld War IUnreasonableStranger Than Fiction Book:Wars I have seen Source: Wars I have seen
“A couple of hundred years from now, maybe [science fiction writers] Isaac Asimov and Fred Pohl will be considered the important philosophers of the twentieth century, and the professional philosophers will almost all be forgotten, because they're just shallow and wrong, and their ideas aren't very powerful.” YearsImportantIdeasPowerfulFictionCenturyCoupleHundredScience FictionForgottenPhilosopherShallowTwentieth CenturyVery PowerfulFiction WritersIsaac Author:Marvin Minsky
“However, in my fiction, I want to give an even further warning of where we're heading. And so, in "Heartland," you have people selling off their topsoil, and an underwater oil spill that has lasted over three-hundred days.” PeopleWantGivingThreeFictionHundredOilSellingWarningHeadingsSpillsUnderwaterOil SpillTopsoil Author:Alexander Weinstein