I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the… — Faran Tahir Copy Share Image
I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate - it helps us look at our society from a different… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
Science-fiction fans are the most loyal fans in the world. It's true. They'll watch things that you actually should give them their… — Katee Sackhoff Copy Share Image
“HARD SF and EPIC FANTASY – both of these forms have been conventionalised, proscribed and prescribed, such that they constitute valid GENRES… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
Attempting to define science fiction is an undertaking almost as difficult, though not so popular, as trying to define pornography... In both… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Whenever I read a contemporary literary novel that describes the world we're living in, I wait for the science fiction tools to… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths. One of the themes is the overextension of credit, the nature of being… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
I believe in what science fiction can do, which is it can set up simple rules that it has to follow to… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
“Be careful who you let define your good. —Lois McMaster Bujold, science fiction writer • Why is learning to sift through possibilities… — Whitney Johnson Copy Share Image
“The ceiling shattered, and the vacuum created yanked her into the air. Her face grazed a shard of the ceiling as it… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
“A face stared up at her from the mirror beside her hand. Was that really what she looked like? Was that really… — P.C. Hodgell Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a weird category, because it's the only area of fiction I can think of where the story is not… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
“© Carlyle Labuschagne 2014 " As I watched her run down the path and melt with the shadows, I wasn't sure how… — Carlyle Labuschagne Copy Share Image
I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall into the 'historic fiction' category.… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Once, in a cheap science fiction novel, Fat had come across a perfect description of the Black Iron Prison, but set in… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven, or science-fantasy. Since then it's been a… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
“I was his heartbeat. I was his fucking universe. Now I was, but soon I wouldn't be. I would miss that, miss… — Lisa Henry Copy Share Image
What if most of the technologies readers and cinemagoers are presented with in bestselling books and blockbuster movies are not science fiction,… — James Morcan Copy Share Image
I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that… — Lalla Ward Copy Share Image
Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
“I still have the scars from when they captured me and beat me in the middle of the street." "You don't get… — Amy Tintera Copy Share Image
Science fiction was one of those places, particularly during the McCarthy era, where you could write whatever you wanted because it was… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Take 'Ex Machina.' Everyone said it was one of the great feminist works of science fiction. But what I found disappointing is… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and… — Hugo Gernsback Copy Share Image
“You brothers-such a nest of rivalries. I warned him to make you sisters, that it would make things more civilized. He thought… — Chris Wraight Copy Share Image
“We promised to fight for protection of nature as we have thrived here; we promised this land would blossom again with forests… — Abhishek Ghosh Copy Share Image
“The Magical Negro rested his red cane on his shoulder and leisurely strolled into the forest to see if he could find… — Nnedi Okorafor Copy Share Image
“Her weight settled on her back foot as she crossed her arms over her chest and stared at him, now legitimately baffled.… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
In the meantime, I just have to create those realistic goals about the fact that I don't have a ton of options… — Michael Shanks Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever really been a science fiction writer. I'm closer to a fantasist, speculative fiction, whatever, but labels are… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
“When one day an expedition was sent to the spatial coordinates that Voojagig had claimed for the planet they discovered only a… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“We’re not searching for anything except people. We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
It's easy to get stuck in a rut when you're writing in one genre for too long. So, when you've been writing… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“At its best, science fiction stimulates imagination and creativity. It gets reader and writer off the beaten track, off the narrow, narrow… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“But Mother, I don't want to go. It's just that...I have to. I can't spend the rest of my life hiding in… — Margaret Peterson Haddix Copy Share Image
“The mistakes we make when we are young are just as important to us as food or air. Without learning how to… — J.A. Brimingham Copy Share Image
I think that some of the archetypes and works of science fiction that have pierced pop culture and stayed there are the… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Even as a kid enthralled with science fiction, I wondered about the role of people in the long-term evolution of the Earth,… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
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