Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
For me, a kitchen is like science fiction. I only go there to open the refrigerator and take something out. — Ann-Margret Copy Share Image
“You’re insane.” “It’ll work.” “Which does not alter the fact that you are insane.” — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
“Step up to red alert." Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb." - Rimmer & Kryten, "Red Dwarf” — Rob Grant; Grant Naylor Copy Share Image
Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define… — Tom Shippey Copy Share Image
“That was a double negative, Jemail. By saying that you haven’t seen nobody, you’re actually saying that you have seen somebody.” — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet. — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
“Now, this was a combination that she wouldn’t dare to dream of, even in her worst nightmare.” — B. Barmanbek Copy Share Image
There's always been a little bit of tension between the writers of science fiction literature and then science-fiction televised shows or movies,… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
“Are there, as science fiction and Gnostic speculation imply, different species of time in the same world, 'good time' and enveloping folds… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“Whatever you do, don’t make it worse by trying to come up with some flimsy excuse for why you were in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I think horror or science fiction is another way of telling a modern myth - it's like Ancient Greece; it's like kids… — Reg E. Cathey Copy Share Image
“The best sci-fi stories use the fantastical to remind us of the reality of who we are today, the hope of who… — Julio-Alexi Genao Copy Share Image
There's a thing with genre movies and science fiction movies that number two is the charmed; two seems to be the best.… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
“Please take note that any and all dragon petting will be at your own peril. We are not liable for any injuries… — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
In the highly unlikely event he survived the drastic changes in the ratio of his volume to his surface area, by approximately… — John Alejandro King Copy Share Image
“I loathe popular pulp, I loathe go-go gangs, I loathe jungle music, I loathe science fiction with its gals and goons, suspense… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I think that's what I really dig about science fiction these days - we've caught up to it in a way. It's… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
The big thing is it's a domestic drama. Everything else in science fiction tends to be high-concept. Really for the last 40… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
I would love to take control of the entire universe and for five years you give every movie the same widespread distribution… — Kenneth Lonergan Copy Share Image
“Though the Casimir force-a mysterious, phantom force exerted by nothing at all-seems like science fiction, it exists. It is a tiny force… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
“I never really had control over my life because no one does. We're all tossed into this loop because there is only… — Brandon R. Chinn Copy Share Image
...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Life is a negotiation. we all want. we all give to get what we want.” — Mordin Solus Copy Share Image
My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.' — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
“And suddenly, the earth was an alien place, and she a voyager without sure destination.” — Rodgers Clemens Copy Share Image
I love thrillers. I would even read certain science fiction, although I haven't been a devotee for many years. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
“Beef had hit $300 a kilo. Not that he could recall the last time he’d tasted real beef.” — Barry Kirwan Copy Share Image
“Despite what your science fiction writers dream, we simply don't have the technology” — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
I love the fact that it's not only about Star Trek, but about science fiction in general, and science. — Rene Auberjonois Copy Share Image
But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
In high school and college, I started to read more and write science fiction myself. I was fully engaged in writing in… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“So I’m alone. I have no one. Is that what you’re telling me?” - Junco, Range (to be published April 2013)” — J.A. Huss Copy Share Image
The best Science Fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“Nice dress,” Victoria said. “Thank you,” Perpetua said. “Do you mind if I ask you a personal question?” Victoria blinked. “Uh, what?” — Benjamin R. Smith Copy Share Image
Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision. — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
“Be like the koru; as you go forward into the forever-changing future, always remain faithful to the point of origin.” — Lauren Lola Copy Share Image
When the state was going to tell you what your future would be, science fiction was irrelevant. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
