“No, when the time comes, I’m sure I’ll kill just like everybody else. I can’t go down without a fight. Only I… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I'm not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and… — Mark Goddard Copy Share Image
“If the only option you leave poor people with is to resort to violence in order to survive, they’ll do just that.… — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
“I am the Eschaton. I am not your God. I am descended from you, and exist in your future. Thou shalt not… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he… — Matthew Modine Copy Share Image
I'm only interested in science fiction that's used as a literary device, a shortcut into something more exploratory or universal about our… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
Only a minority of science fiction dystopias attempt to plumb the real existential roots of oppression, the flaws in humanity's nature that… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“They worried to an excessive degree about getting gender correct, as if elves gave a shit. Humans could keep their concerns about… — Sabrina Zbasnik Copy Share Image
I define science fiction as fiction in which things happen that are not possible today - that depend, for instance, on advanced… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Science fiction also provides a sense of nostalgia that is always present when it comes to Palestine, in that whenever we talk… — Larissa Sansour Copy Share Image
“I steal one glance over my shoulder as soon as we are far from the foreboding luminance of the neon glow, and… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
“All fiction is metaphor. Science fiction is metaphor. What sets it apart from older forms of fiction seems to be its use… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“American cold war culture represented an age of anxiety. The anxiety was so severe that it sought relief in an insistent, assertive… — W. Scott Poole Copy Share Image
“She didn’t want to be the savior of humanity. She never had. She didn’t want to be the vanguard—of destruction or salvation.… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
I've always resented the force of attraction that traps me here on Planet Earth. It makes me feel like a bug stuck… — Charles Platt Copy Share Image
“Weird fiction is a strange beast, an eclectic genre (or subgenre). It originated in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century through… — Helen Marshall Copy Share Image
I watch 2001: A Space Odyssey every time it’s on. I made the kids watch it every time, too, and now they… — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
Purdom has created a major body of work. Thoughtful, humane, intelligent, extrapolative, involving, his stories are exactly the sort of thing our… — Michael Swanwick Copy Share Image
“A human life Is the time that happens while The Earth takes a break For you to live between Inhaling and exhaling… — Haidji Copy Share Image
I read fiction all the time. It's true that I don't like fantasy or science fiction. I like "realistic" novels, particularly those… — Gustavo Perez Firmat Copy Share Image
I've always had a real interest in the way that science fiction can portray a world that could be different to our… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
“People say, 'Time heals all wounds.' That may be true, but relocating to an alternate reality can sure help too." -Excerpt from… — Nathan Van Coops Copy Share Image
I've only written one science-fiction book: 'Fahrenheit 451.' That book is a book based on real facts and my hatred of people… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I've been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my 'Star Trek' character and I've been turning them… — Marina Sirtis Copy Share Image
I was only eight when Sputnik was launched, and at that age the boundary between science and fiction is pretty blurry. Whichever… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
I think there's always been, to some degree, a misunderstanding about what science fiction is all about, in that it has been… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“Après tout, on vit à l'époque des Kleenex. On fait avec les gens comme avec les mouchoirs, on froisse après usage, on… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I read a lot of science fiction and biography - these are my two favorite genres. My favorite science fiction writers are… — Brad Feld Copy Share Image
“The utter wildness of the nineteen-fifties, a decade in which 100 new religions were formed, psychedelic drug experimentation was on an industrial… — James Mahaffey Copy Share Image
I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
Arthur Clarke says that I am first in science and second in science fiction in accordance with an agreement we have made.… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to science fiction… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Science-Fiction, in which the revealed truths of Science may be given interwoven with a pleasing story which may itself be poetical and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like thats because technology… — Alaina Huffman Copy Share Image
That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child and try to work with my first… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
The popularity of fantasy surpassing science fiction and the popularity of apocalyptic fiction, particularly for young adults, may indicate a desire to… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
“Frankie runs a sex moon and has kids. My head hurts just thinking about it. You still keep up with her, too,… — Michelle O'Leary Copy Share Image
“The opening screen of T'Rain was a frank rip-off of what you saw when you booted up Google Earth. Richard felt no… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
