I'm always a little bit cautious around invented terminology because so much science fiction is off-putting to the uninitiated. You open up… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
'Fringe' is one of my favorite television shows, from its inception. I absolutely love all of the science fiction of it, the… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
“Her husband's visage captivated her from the first moment she saw him step out of the royal carriage a hundred years ago.… — Therisa Peimer Copy Share Image
I actually am grateful for Freddy Krueger, because the big surprise to me - with that sort of double punch of science… — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
I think science fiction gives us a wonderful toolkit to disassemble and reexamine this kind of incomprehensible, constantly changing present that we… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The thing that's interesting about science fiction is that it is always, when it is done well, a lens on our world.… — Simon Kinberg Copy Share Image
In older science fiction stories, they had to rely on storytelling as opposed to spectacle. The old run of the 'Twilight Zone,'… — Josh Trank Copy Share Image
It's often better to read first-rate science fiction than second-rate science - it's far more stimulating, and perhaps no more likely to… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“I know, i know. You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was younger I… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
With Rodham, for instance, it has to work on an emotional level. It has to work on a character level. If it's… — James Ponsoldt Copy Share Image
The films that I loved growing up were the science fiction films from the late seventies and early eighties [films], which were… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
It's interesting how many science fiction writers get going when they are very young. I was on a program with Greg Bear… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the net to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The genius is not in how much Stanley Kubrick does in “2001: A Space Odyssey,'' but in how little. This is the… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it's the alien equivalent of a discarded tomato can. Does a beetle know why it can enter the can only from… — Algis Budrys Copy Share Image
When I started publishing - my first novel came out in 1990 - there were no options for publishing science fiction in… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Something like 'Alien,' that was not so easy. If there's any genre I wouldn't mind not having to do anymore, it would… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The Extinction of the Human Race now underway. Watch it live as it happens - Is it too late to stop it?… — Michael Mathiesen Copy Share Image
I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
“Observation had always meant more to me than interaction...My sole gift or talent, I believe now, was that places could impress themselves… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
“Ray Bradbury’s entire oeuvre exemplifies the crumbling of SCIENCE FICTION into the open interplay of science fiction, fantasy and horror.” — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
“Science Fiction is a collection of guerrilla bands each challenging the rights of the others to belong to the centrality. The band… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do Harry Potter or anything like that. Even when I did science-fiction,… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
I never think about genre when I work. I've written fantasy, science fiction, supernatural fiction, and am now working on a suspense… — Elizabeth Hand Copy Share Image
“The sound came again. There was a whistle to it, and a moan. It was almost a hiss, and it could’ve been… — Cherie Priest Copy Share Image
“The fire crackled. On Jutaire, without oxygen, the fire is different. Fed by different air. Maybe it wishes it were orange, for… — Hafsah Laziaf Copy Share Image
“Degree of conformance to our other beliefs. One of our criteria for the assessment of explanations is coherence with our existing beliefs.” — Michael E Emmering Copy Share Image
“i can wait wait wait..to go to the other side of life..but dis wait seems like d rainbow in the night..so dat… — sunil sharma Copy Share Image
Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Horror is one of the few genres - romance and comedy are the other two that come to mind - that's all… — Stephen R. Bissette Copy Share Image
It's one of those things that if I was smart enough to explain it in words, I wouldn't have had to make… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
“So the scale law rules out the familiar idea of worlds-within-worlds found in science fiction, that is, the idea that inside the… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years… — Bill Mumy Copy Share Image
“Assume Nothing! Keep your friends close and your enemies closer! Never Forget! Live every day to the fullest! Never take anything for… — J.K. Kelly Copy Share Image
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