The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 Quotes

“Night Scene in the Yoshiwara, by Katsushika Ōi,”
― John Joseph Adams, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022

“Georgia Douglas Johnson’s An Autumn Love Cycle to Archibald Motley’s vibrant paintings of nightlife—both in Paris and here in Bronzeville.”
― John Joseph Adams, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022

“And of ourselves and of our origins / In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds.”
― John Joseph Adams, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022

“Andy put the note in his pocket. “Much to think about,” he said out loud. This was a thing that one of their TAs had liked to say at the end of every class, back in undergrad. There’d been a certain intonation, and it had cracked Hannah and Andy up all semester. They’d said it to each other all the time. It had been the working title of Hannah’s dissertation.”
― John Joseph Adams, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022

“Isn’t time just another swimming pool?”
― John Joseph Adams, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022

“Once upon a time, the people in charge told some peons they had to die, so they did. Rinse and repeat.”
― John Joseph Adams, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022

“Alone, what difference can one human being make? More than you think. Change comes incrementally. This is a symphony—not a solo.”
― John Joseph Adams, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022

“Guilt is often all that’s left when what we should be feeling—anger—is an inconvenience to the people with blood on their hands and fingers on the scale.”
― John Joseph Adams, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022

“I have, and it was in no way rendered less unsettling by the knowledge that this was a female with young. For nothing on the waters and the wide wide world is fiercer than a mother.”
― John Joseph Adams, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022

“Life and death are not so far apart, as it happens, and neither are venom and the truth.”
― John Joseph Adams, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022