“Her head dropped into her hands. Dammit! She’d spent months preparing for the challenges of a war against an immortal enemy wielding… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
That's what 'Star Trek' was: We don't know how to make an ideal society, but we're going to portray that, and then… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
Sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical. I'm more interested in… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
“The Linux world behaves in many respects like a free market or an ecology, a collection of selfish agents attempting to maximize… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
“If this is my final moment,” she says, “then I can die happy.” “Is that why you’re saying all this? Because you… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“Cities controlled by big companies are old hat in science fiction. My grandmother left a whole bookcase of old science fiction novels.… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“The First Mobile, if one is sent, must be warned that unless he is very self-assured, or senile, his pride will suffer.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Only under extreme pressure can we change into that which it is in our most profound nature to become . . .… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I would love to take control of the entire universe and for five years you give every movie the same widespread distribution… — Kenneth Lonergan Copy Share Image
“Though the Casimir force-a mysterious, phantom force exerted by nothing at all-seems like science fiction, it exists. It is a tiny force… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
“I never really had control over my life because no one does. We're all tossed into this loop because there is only… — Brandon R. Chinn Copy Share Image
...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The obsession with correct political belief and expression in art is stultifying the genre as it is necessarily exclusive. We are losing… — Scott M. Roberts Copy Share Image
Since the show [Helix] is based in real science, there are real-life epidemic scares out there, throughout history, where there are these… — Kyra Zagorsky Copy Share Image
What I love about the 'State of Syn' concept is that, while it's exploring science fiction, it's also trying to explore the… — David Hewlett Copy Share Image
“Another growing genre of film, science fiction, also tried to play on anti-Communist emotions during and after the war. Following such films… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
“I’m always thrilled,” wrote Alan Cheuse, emphasizing the novelty and, perhaps, the faint air of slumming that attends the notion of McCarthy’s… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
In the highly unlikely event he survived the drastic changes in the ratio of his volume to his surface area, by approximately… — John Alejandro King Copy Share Image
I think that's what I really dig about science fiction these days - we've caught up to it in a way. It's… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
“I loathe popular pulp, I loathe go-go gangs, I loathe jungle music, I loathe science fiction with its gals and goons, suspense… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The big thing is it's a domestic drama. Everything else in science fiction tends to be high-concept. Really for the last 40… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
“You squeeze the eyedropper, and a drop of pond water drips out onto the microscope stage. You look at the projected image.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There's always someone kicking guns. We wanted ["Badlands"] to be a world without guns and bullets, where martial arts was the form… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
“Herbert George Wells, better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“In Mere Christianity, no less than in his more fantastical works, the Narnia stories and science fiction novels, Lewis betrays a deep… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Working on science fiction, horror, and adventure series is fun because the music is needed to help build the world that the… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
“Let’s get to know each other. My name’s William, William More, but you can call me Willy. I’m an engineer-chemist who graduated… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
“Let's say that the God the Christians pray to is real. He actually exists. But this God is the same as the… — S.T. Rogers Copy Share Image
It was an excess of fantasy that killed the old United States, the whole Mickey Mouse and Marilyn thing, the most brilliant… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I mean: if you’re going outside to look for your sister, I get it.” Max goes silent. Maybe Mirjam’s death is hitting… — Corinne Duyvis Copy Share Image
First a piece of Irish wisdom: you should always listen to a bookie. For they have a saying, 'Money tells a good… — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't wait for… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
“I never sleep. Like the dolphin and the spiny anteater, I don't experience REM. Unlike the dreamless mammals, I'm a construct. I… — Lyda Morehouse Copy Share Image
I grew up a really nerdy kid. I read science fiction and fantasy voraciously, for the first 16 years of my life.… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
“It suddenly occurred to me just how absurd this scene was: a guy wearing a suit of armor, standing next to an… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
“Intense sunlight rained down on a half-submerged city. Waves crashed between buildings that stood like waterlogged tombstones. Skyscrapers of smashed glass and… — Kev Heritage Copy Share Image
“When I look back now, I realize what a trial I must have been to my friends and relatives. It was one… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It's been suggested that most women fail to write significantly because the female mind is viscerotonic, and occupied almost exclusively with the… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
“People gravitated here for the open air, the prolific intoxicants and the visual treats. They made the deals here that were later… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
And we should keep our minds open, or at least ajar, to concepts on the fringe of science fiction. Flaky American futurologists… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image