If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it
Warren EllisLos Angeles had no culture of its own, just a large collection of misreadings of the artistic histories of other, proper cities.
Warren EllisIf you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
Warren EllisWhat? I bring joy to the world. I am filled with mirth and sunlight. Also, I am Batman.
Warren EllisSo this Zealot comes to my door, all glazed eyes and clean reproductive organs, asking me if I ever think about God. So I tell him I killed God. I tracked God down like a rabid dog, hacked off his legs with a hedge trimmer, raped him with a corncob, and boiled off his corpse in an acid bath. So he pulls an alternating-current taser on me and tells me that only the Official Serbian Church of Tesla can save my polyphase intrinsic electric field, known to non-engineers as "the soul." So I hit him. What would you do?
Warren Ellis