My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is. — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“He let out a short laugh. "You sound like Sherlock Holmes. You gonna pull out a magnifying glass? A pipe, maybe?” — James Dashner Copy Share Image
I was a science fiction geek. That lets you know that they come in all sizes and styles, right? — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
“To be in a war, you must learn the rules of survival… to win a war, you must break every fucking one… — A.J. Vega Copy Share Image
Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny. — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
“To completely understand me you must first accept that I am not you.” — Ross Caligiuri Copy Share Image
Despite what everyone thinks about science fiction, ultimately, at its best, it's about human beings with human emotions. — Greig Fraser Copy Share Image
My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became… — Daniel Goldstein Copy Share Image
I'm not so fond of the sort of science fiction that isn't really science fiction but is sometimes thought to be -… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I've always loved science fiction, fantasy, manga, comic books; so I guess, to some degree, those things influence my personal idea of… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
In an era when the nation's collective imagination is no longer captured by space, real science sometimes has a smaller budget than… — Peter Kendall Copy Share Image
How could you possibly call something science fiction at this point unless it has to do with something that hasn't been done?… — El-P Copy Share Image
“You've got to have an imagination to make it to the stars. The sort of species that wouldn't invent science fiction, probably… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Avery slides on his glasses and opens his eyes again. “Dammit!” he says again with more feeling. “Why does stuff like this… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“A mix of revenge, sadness and anger funnels into a decision that’s so simple and neat, it could fit in my pocket.… — Georgia Clark Copy Share Image
There are very real differences between science fiction and realistic fiction, between horror and fantasy, between romance and mystery. Differences in writing… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Though often scoffed at by “serious” writers, science fiction worms its way into our cultural psyche in interesting ways, and not just… — Frank Daniels III Copy Share Image
The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
“I,” he said, a faint note of derision in his voice, “am the least favored scion of our ruling house, House Mara… — P.J. Fox Copy Share Image
“Government is never the solution, but it is almost always a problem. I'm a capitalist. And I believe in effort and progress… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“He was not a tall man, but he was wide. His face was the color and texture of old leather boots, and… — Grahame Shannon Copy Share Image
I love really exploring... you know, a cop drama for example is a great way to explore class in this country and… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
The film is therefore a form of science fiction, in which humans, beasts and machines are on the verge of extinction -… — Leos Carax Copy Share Image
“It's impossible to walk through solid rock... You have to walk between the molecules that make up the rock.” — J.M. Dattilo Copy Share Image
“Stability,” insisted the Controller, “stability. The primal and the ultimate need. Stability. Hence all this.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I'm a huge science fiction fan, and I'm a huge fan of J. Michael Straczynski. — Jamie Clayton Copy Share Image
In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“Um. Ways in which a sentence beginning with the word "missiles" could be a good thing... Nope. I got nuthin'.” — Dennis E. Taylor Copy Share Image
Science fiction has always had a dark side. There has been a touch of the irrational and absurd in the genre from… — Douglas Lain Copy Share Image
In science-fiction films the monster should always be bigger than the leading lady. — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
“As one climbs up the ladders in society, one starts feeling more and more like an owner, less like a member of… — B. Barmanbek Copy Share Image
“Need to get to Ruislip by sparrow-fart though', said the squadron leader. 'Think you can do that? Can I come along for… — Robert Rankin Copy Share Image
I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic. — Dan Aykroyd Copy Share Image
“The road to power is forged with lies and lives,” Loch says. “I have no regrets.” — S.G. Blaise Copy Share Image
That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I have 20 or 30 books completely plotted out in my mind - mysteries, thrillers, horror, romance, science fiction. You name it. — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
“What was I before the war? It’s hard to remember that far back. But I think maybe I was human.” — A.J. Vega Copy Share Image
