“The kind of dystopian books that I've always loved the most are the on...” — Laura van den Berg Quote

“The kind of dystopian books that I've always loved the most are the ones where you find yourself in a world that's less scorched-earth and instead a world that has just been made different.”

“As for me, I was a lonely kid, with few close friends until I was an adult - even when I might have been perceived as being on the inside, I felt like I was on the outside, kind of like viewing the world through a sheet of glass.”

“I am an incorrigible eavesdropper, so I am very much influenced by what I hear.”

“Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.”

“Shelley Jackson's 'Half Life' is the textual equivalent of an installation, a multivocal, polymorphous, dialogic, dystopian satire wrapped around a murder mystery wrapped around a bildungsroman.”

“I'm not a 'dystopian, futuristic master': I'm a schnook walking the street. It's an insane reality we're living in, and I'm just trying to translate it for myself.”