6 James Nicoll Quotes on Writing

James Nicoll quotes on writing

6. A lot of my stories end with 'And when I regained consciousness, there was a crowd standing around looking at me.'

10. About Genellan: Planetfall by Scott Gier: Aha! The Alien Planet Canada series, where the planet the characters are marooned on seems to be Manitoba. Bad bad world building.

17. About James Clemens's Wit'ch Storm: 'Nothin'g sa'ys q'uality fantas'y l'ike misuse'd apos'tro'phes.'

28. Ben Bova seems to work very hard at working in new discoveries into his Glum Future but alas, his future is glum and not that well written.

42. I believe that I have now experienced the lifetime maximum exposure to bottom spanking in fantasy novels.

47. [Elizabeth Moon's] antagonists are always evil moustache-twirlers. She could write a book about a golf open and the main rival to the hero would turn out to have clubs made from compressed kittens.