“The day burned orange, like a photographic negative, and it would be a few days more before my eyes could adjust. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[A] science fiction story is one which presupposes a technology, or an effect of technology, or a disturbance in the natural order,… — Edmund Crispin Copy Share Image
“The day I die, I’ll be too busy thinking to notice” he waved his hand as he left the ship. - Nelson… — A.Z. Kelvin Copy Share Image
I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science fiction as a kid… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Because of an imaginary voice, Nicholas had become a whole person; rather than the partial person he had been in Berkeley. If… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers aren't in the prediction business; they're in the speculation business, using 'hasn't happened' or 'hasn't happened yet' to create… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
“Jessie was trying to read science fiction but nothing she read so far could begin to match ordinary life on this planet,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
Please help keep the world clean: others may wish to use it. Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“The art of fiction has not changed much since prehistoric times. The formula for telling a powerful story has remained the same:… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
There are certain kinds of people who write science fiction. I think a lot of us married late. A lot of us… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I know that I am going to meet a personal variation on reality; a partial view of reality. But I know also… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Boys do not evaluate a book. They divide books into categories. There are sexy books, war books, westerns, travel books, science fiction.… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“From the chapter titled "R3curs1on" (Typographical irregularities are for effect and require context.) “Godnet removes the uncertainty. I miss the Bro o… — Trevor Barton Copy Share Image
Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive… Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I had never been much of a science-fiction or Buck Rogers fan. I was more interested in what was going on right… — Gus Grissom Copy Share Image
Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I see Ender in you looking out at me. You see Ender in me looking out at you. And yet not one… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
[on L. Ron Hubbard] I'm not in favor of his religion by any means. But he wrote a book called 'Battlefield Earth'… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
“The warp was the source of so much anguish for us, and yet its absence generated the greatest abhorrence of all. I… — Chris Wraight Copy Share Image
“Music can make you feel things that aren’t yours—sadness, or love, or joy. A good song has a magic to it. It… — Michelle Frost Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I loved 'The Curse of Frankenstein,' 'The Creeping Unknown,' 'X: The Unknown.' I love 'Forbidden Planet,' 'The… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
“And for those of us from communities with historic collective trauma, we must understand that each of us is already science fiction… — Walidah Imarisha Copy Share Image
It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries,… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
For the last 30 years our cinemas have been ruled by science fiction and horror. We've had some very good Fantasy films… — Harry Knowles Copy Share Image
“You like almost every genre, but you’re a binge genre reader. When you’re on a science-fiction kick, you stay with sci-fi for… — Ellery Adams Copy Share Image
The 1970s were so wonderful for women writers. There were all these women, and they were seen as doing the most interesting,… — Lisa Tuttle Copy Share Image
“The rulers were using ancient knowledge to manipulate the amygdaloidal primal fear. They ruled through fear, preternatural fear created through soft, invisible… — Amira Aly Copy Share Image
“Just a cat! Just a cat! I am the stealer of breaths, the walker of shadows, the keeper of nine lives.” —the… — Richard Due Copy Share Image
“She waits for his reprimand or words of disapproval. He kisses her instead. Hard. Lips demanding, fingers tightening on her chin. He… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
Making a living out of acting sounded like science-fiction when I was growing up. I didn't know anyone around me who lived… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
“It was one of those dreams from which she woke up depressed about her reality, filled with a longing that pulled at… — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
“When you read my stories, I want you to see the world through my eyes; as if I based my work on… — Nila N. Brown Copy Share Image
“…Do not discount the value of luck. It is a hidden and unseen attribute in a man that will save him when… — A.J. Vega Copy Share Image
Science fiction is essentially a kind of fiction in which people learn more about how to live in the real world, visiting… — Brian Stableford Copy Share Image
You know, every year 'Torchwood' has become something a little different than it was before. It's still sci-fi, but it doesn't just… — John Barrowman Copy Share Image
“But a thought swarmed in me; what if he, this yellow-eyed being – in his ridiculous, dirty bundle of trees, in his… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image