The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 Quotes

“Science fiction and fantasy are often genres of social critique, but that doesn’t mean they have to wrap things up neatly for you; instead, they can provoke and unsettle you, and allow you the space to consider and reconsider and come to new conclusions. And they will show you how we endure. Whether we endure. What our endurance might cost us. What we will give away in pursuit of resilience, and what we will gain if we achieve it. There are no easy answers, not in these stories, and not in our own lives. But we must continue to ask these questions. The only way out, the saying goes, is through—​and how lucky for us, that science fiction and fantasy are already so consistently concerned with what “through” might look like—​in another dimension, on another planet, or in a world just as surreal as our own. Veronica Roth”
― John Joseph Adams, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021

“I wanted to be in Pawnee or on the Rocinante headed toward a space station or in Hyrule with a Great Thunderblade or on my Animal Crossing island (which I named “Doom”).”
― John Joseph Adams, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021