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• Ursula K. Le Guin: The Birthday of the World - tekst o Ekumenu, svemiru u kojem se odvija roman “Lijeva ruka tame” i još nekoliko Ursulinih romana i priča

“Though I’ve put a good deal of work into my fictional universe, I don’t exactly feel that I invented it. I blundered into it, and have been blundering around in it unsystematically ever since — dropping a millennium here, forgetting a planet there. Honest and earnest people, calling it the Hainish Universe, have tried to plot its history onto Time Lines. I call it the Ekumen, and I say it’s hopeless. Its Time Line is like something the kitten pulled out of the knitting basket, and its history consists largely of gaps.”

• Lois McMaster Bujold: Wars of the Future - govor o tehnološkoj budućnosti ratovanja

“I should state up front that I am a fantasist, not a futurist. I found when I sat down to prepare these remarks that they had an inherent tendency to split in two mutually exclusive directions. As a citizen and a futurist, it’s in my interest to pursue those avenues that promise to reduce war and the tendency to war. In real life, I like being bored. As a novelist and a fantasist, my interest is the reverse - to create exciting scenarios, sometimes violent, that test my characters, if necessary, to destruction.”

• Neal Asher: No, sorry, it’s Climate Change - post o tome zašto se više ne govori o globalnom zatopljenju, već o klimatskim promjenama

“Global Warming is now Climate Change. How perfect. This covers them when, embarrassingly, Earth’s climate fails to conform to their models, when we actually have a few cold years, when the Ross Ice Shelf fails to collapse, or when the oceans fail to rise up and drown our modern day coastal cities of Sodom and Gomorra. Also, Climate Change is an excellent catch-all on which all these can be blamed: a cold wet winter, heavy snowfall, expansion of the ice-caps, drops in sea temperature, hurricanes, tornados and quite probably genital warts.”