New Maps of Hell Quotes

“It is a poor mind that is never in conflict.”
― Kingsley Amis, New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction

“Let complication thrive.”
― Kingsley Amis, New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction

“[Science fiction's] most important use, I submit, is a means of dramatizing social inquiry, as providing a fictional mode in which cultural tendencies can be isolated and judged.”
― Kingsley Amis, New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction

“…to reach any but the nearest stars would take several hundred years even if one travelled at the speed of light, in the course of doing which one would, if I understand Einstein’s popularisers correctly, become infinite in mass and zero in volume, and this is felt to be undesirable.”
― Kingsley Amis, New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction

“...female emancipation, like education, socialism, and Christianity, strikes me as one of those interesting ideas that have never actually been tried out.”
― Kingsley Amis, New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction