Robert K. J. Killheffer
5 Quotations from Robert K. J. Killheffer
| alternative world n. | 2000 Books in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Aug. 26 Perceiving the world—our particular world, as it is now—as ‘contingent’, a product of historical accident, merely one of millions or billions of possibilities: that’s sf at its heart, imagining alternative worlds future, past, or parallel. |
| Lovecraftian adj. | 1995 Books in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction June 28/1 It’s hard to say exactly how a novel about a man’s mid-life despair can be funny; the juxtaposition of workplace ennui and Lovecraftian horrors certainly produces a pervasive sardonic tone, but even the scenes that aren't played for satirical laughs have a kind of exaggerated emotional quality (like that of Lovecraft’s own fiction) that adds a note of grim humor to even the darker scenes. |
| sfnal adj. | 1999 Books in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Oct.–Nov. 38/2 Much of Kurzweil’s material—nanotechnology, uploaded minds, virtual reality—will be familiar to sf readers. But there are some ideas that haven’t been much treated in fiction yet (quantum computing, evolutionary algorithms, etc.), and Kurzweil’s discussion of these concepts offers just the kind of sfnal kick I had expected. |
| space-operatic adj. | 1998 Books in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction June 40/2 The battles between Chaos and Order are so space operatic they verge on parody. |
| time police n. | 1999 Books in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Mar. 37/2 This isn’t the Time Police zooming in on antigrav thrusters. |