Carver's best book yet! FROM A CHANGELING STAR combines deft characterization and fascinating extrapolation into a complex, compulsively readable thriller. I wish… — Craig Shaw Gardner Copy Share Image
If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same… — Jane Espenson Copy Share Image
“I would make a HORRIBLE outlaw. I can plan the crime perfectly, but I'd also need to plan the outcomes to make… — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers aren't short of ideas. You can read a book, and it sets off a chain of thought processes, so… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Look, I went to a lot of trouble to come here and try to help you. I’m in more trouble than I… — D.L. Given Copy Share Image
And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it.… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I would say I'm an ironist not a satirist. All you do is you take existing tendencies and crank them up, just… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“You can't kill an American Citizen without benefit of a trial." "I can if you're on the list, traitor." "LIST? What list?… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
“Fiction may be about lying – on the surface, anyway – but fiction is about hiding the truth behind those lies. It's… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
Sci-Fi is the genre that explored both possibilities: the end of our existential crisis and the end of our existence. My novel,… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Star Trek' is the McDonald's of science fiction; it's fast food storytelling. Every problem is like every other problem. They all get… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
“On a nightstand in a teenager’s room, a glass vase filled with violets leans precariously against a wall. The only thing saving… — Jay Nichols Copy Share Image
I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21,… — Judith Krantz Copy Share Image
Obsession is so extreme and so hard to imagine with the rational mind that it has a science-fiction-like quality to it-it's almost… — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
“You're nothing more than a common bully,' he whispered, voice trembling. I'd shaken him for good now, and it was deeper than… — Danielle Bennett Copy Share Image
I don't write fiction but I do write narrative; I write memoirs that I treat like stories, so whenever I'm using somebody… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Whatever science fiction movies we watch now, we can make the technology real in two days. What we can do is not… — Pranav Mistry Copy Share Image
It really wasn't my thing. It still isn't my thing, the whole science-fiction action thing. I prefer simpler, character-based movies. — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
Labels like 'Chinese Science Fiction' or 'Western Science Fiction' summarize a vast field of work, all of which are diverse and driven… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“The very idea of a library for me is bound to my mother and father and includes the history of my own… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Every good story needs a complication. We learn this fiction-writing fundamental in courses and workshops, by reading a lot or, most painfully,… — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
Technically and logically speaking, actual Victorian science fiction writers cannot be dubbed 'steampunks.' Although they utilized many of the same tropes and… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“it's through the simple things in life, through its games, when our minds mature the most and we grow knowledgeable. It's also… — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
I think the best science fiction, especially literature, is political in nature and is often an allegory about something problematic in our… — Simon Kinberg Copy Share Image
“With Catty and Patrick's images in he side mirror waving from the steps of that house like Jethro and Ellie Mae, it… — Linda Leigh Hargrove Copy Share Image
There are very few works of fiction that take you inside the heads of all characters. I tell my writing students that… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
A great novelist excels on the small scale and the large, the individual leaf and root as well as the forest; good… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
“Here now, in the elsewhen of the SF Café, we’ve had the shenanigans going on for decades, but we haven’t yet adjusted… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
“people were rubbing their eyes and opening windows to stare out and ask questions, and getting dressed quickly as the first breath… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours. Exploiting… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers create all sorts of futures - that comes with the job. But it's not the type that matters -… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
'Knowing' is one of those movies where you're going to get the spectacle, and you're going to have the entertainment in the… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
I think I've actually benefited from Australia being a kind of combination of both British and American culture. We kind of got… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
Science fiction is fantasy about issues of science. Science fiction is a subset of fantasy. Fantasy predated it by several millennia. The… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
I was kind of amazed because I first found out about blue boxes in an article in Esquire magazine labeled fiction. That… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
“I have read that long ago there was a land of glass castles that sank beneath the sea. It was not called… — Claudia Putnam Copy Share Image
There's two kinds of evil that horror fiction always deals with. One kind is the sort of evil that comes from inside… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and… — John Updike Copy Share Image
