From the viewpoint of the writer, the most significant aspect of fantasy and science fiction is that stories of these kinds are… — Brian Stableford Copy Share Image
Without science fiction, without the influence these books have had on me over the years, I'm not sure I would care much… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
I'm not really a science-fiction fan, I quite like the idea of getting away from the science-fiction side of it, for two… — Sarah Sutton Copy Share Image
I probably would never be able to direct a comedy because I'm not that funny. I don't have that funny bone in… — Luke Scott Copy Share Image
Historically, I guess that's how science fiction works: you start by using aliens to think the unthinkable and then, eventually, another… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“She felt a soft brush of lips against her forehead, heard the other woman murmur, "Sleep now, chére." Chére, Hannah though. Cherished.… — Hillary Jordan Copy Share Image
“What you mons making all the racket about? You wake me again and I’ll put the voodoo hex on you. All you… — Ellen Dawn Benefield Copy Share Image
I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Investors include former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Google cofounder Larry Page. Planetary Resources’ lead was followed in 2013 by a firm… — Stephen L. Petranek Copy Share Image
I spent most of my teen years trying to figure out the rules of life, theories for why things happened, why people… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
“...She wasn't anyone special. She wasn't that brave, that clever or that strong. She was just somebody that felt cramped by the… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“...only in the late 1100s and 1200s did scholars in Sicily and Spain translate Aristotle's greatest philosophical and scientific texts. These translations… — William C Placher Copy Share Image
What writers of fantasy, science fiction, and much historical fiction do for a living is different from what writers of so-called literary… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them are great fun to write about… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
“Unfettered is an anthology filled with magic, wonderment, and hope. It is more than it's combined stories, though. It is the power… — Shawn Speakman Copy Share Image
“The scientific (not to mention philosophical and metaphysical) implications are astounding. Let's say some of the atoms in your body originally formed… — Bob Berman Copy Share Image
I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
Like most genres of literary expression, science fiction in China was subject to instrumentalist impulses and had to serve practical goals. — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
With 'White Light,' I had just finished watching 'Under the Skin' and was really obsessed with the idea of science fiction presented… — Shura Copy Share Image
“Fantasy novels reveal “emergency escape routes” from reality. Romance novels dish out a banquet of Eye Candy. Otherworldly passion erupts when the… — Sarah J. Pepper Copy Share Image
“There are many universes, perhaps an infinite number; that each contains, and is contained within every other; and that all of them… — Matt Suddain Copy Share Image
I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, 'The Handmaid's Tale.' And… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise.… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
“Every morning when I wake up, I ask myself, "Why was I born?" Then I answer myself, "You were born to be… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
The Place of No Shadows, in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine (1990) In our Universe, matter is arranged in a hierarchy of… — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
“Doesn’t he look just like a ring wraith?” she said thoughtfully. “Are you kidding?” replied Cathy, “I most certainly won't be carol… — Paul Baxter Copy Share Image
“A twisted, pale figure writhing in agony, chest bare and hideous. Tight, rigid cords of sickly green veins webbed across the boy’s… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
“Fleshers used to spin fantasies about aliens arriving to ‘conquer’ Earth, to steal their ‘precious’ physical resources, to wipe them out for… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
“Science Fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe what is going on, what… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The system is only as good as its leaders. When they fail—when the system fails—you better damn well hope I’m there to… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
“Zombies are not just fictional creatures that devour the flesh of the living. They also include those who follow the words of… — Joseph McGinnis Copy Share Image
Having a super-brain does not suddenly make you a dictator of the world. So we don't have to fear the scenarios of… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“Red, orange and green geometric designs painted its body as well as the flimsy collar around its neck. The creature flicked its… — Marcha A. Fox Copy Share Image
I grew up as an artist. Science fiction allows for design and creatures and guns and all the stuff that I like… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
“When I started reading the literature of molecular biology, I was stunned by certain descriptions. Admittedly, I was on the lookout for… — Jeremy Narby Copy Share Image
“But Time Lords always travel in the T – in their Spectrels, don't they?" "Only if absolutely necessary." "You what?" "It's another… — Mark Speed Copy Share Image
“The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth, whether it's scientific truth or historical truth or personal truth! It… — Anonymous 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
“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
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
