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

“...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