“Reality is incredibly larger, infinitely more exciting, than the flesh and blood vehicle we travel in here. If you read science fiction,… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
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Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“For my money, noir boils down to bleak humanism – or, to put it more plainly: shit options, bad decisions, and dire… — Chris F. Holm Copy Share Image
“Try to think of it as though we are rewriting history––the first time this experience occurred you and I never kissed in… — Ross Caligiuri Copy Share Image
My first encounter with science fiction was reading the work of H.G. Wells when I was nine or ten, and I don't… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
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“Beyond the queues, the vacancy screens listed jobs in a multitude of languages. Invariably, they were low-paid and short-term dead-ends. Nearby, people… — Mark Cantrell Copy Share Image
“How long the party lasted Forrester did not know. He remembered a long harangue in which the drunken ballet dancer was trying… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
Most difficult thing in the world, to write a play. Do you know the story of Shaw at the Fabian society? H.G.… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
I do think that science fiction ideas are best expressed through visual media like film and TV. Realist literature depicts things that… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“Two men who had never seen each other before and would not likely see each other again. But their sincerity and sweetness,… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“Not that he wanted to say that. It would make it sound as if he wanted to blame her.. Women were very… — Peter David Copy Share Image
I guess...on one hand, I spent way too much time watching science fiction and reading science fiction when I was growing up.… — Moby Copy Share Image
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“Enemy?’ Horus laughed. ‘When did they become the enemy? They are men like us.’ He glared up at the night sky, threw… — Dan Abnett Copy Share Image
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“If I program ’ware with an Anglo-Ubiq word and play it, you understand it,” Scile said. “If I do the same with… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
Directing is a big responsibility to take on. I think I'm only good at doing things I know very well. I don't… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
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If there’s a zeppelin, it’s alternate history. If there’s a rocketship, it’s science fiction. If there are swords and/or horses, it’s fantasy.… — Debra Doyle Copy Share Image
“Literature is the extant body of written art. All novels belong to it. The value judgement concealed in distinguishing one novel as… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Sunshine takes its intelligent and honourable place in the history of grownup science fiction on the screen and on the page: a… — Peter Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Nuclear terrorism is still often treated as science fiction. I wish it were. But unfortunately we live in a world of excess… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“He was too frightened to speak. This was no hallucination. This was what happened to the universe when you were no longer… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
The film is therefore a form of science fiction, in which humans, beasts and machines are on the verge of extinction -… — Leos Carax Copy Share Image
“To be a science fiction writer you must be interested in the future and you must feel that the future will be… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“I have a deep thought for you. Science fiction is just beginning to catch up with the Old Testament. See artificial nitrates… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“No matter what comes, we will persevere. It’s not over until we win.” Oh, how she wanted to believe him. How she… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
“Though often scoffed at by “serious” writers, science fiction worms its way into our cultural psyche in interesting ways, and not just… — Frank Daniels III Copy Share Image
The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
“I,” he said, a faint note of derision in his voice, “am the least favored scion of our ruling house, House Mara… — P.J. Fox Copy Share Image
“Government is never the solution, but it is almost always a problem. I'm a capitalist. And I believe in effort and progress… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“He was not a tall man, but he was wide. His face was the color and texture of old leather boots, and… — Grahame Shannon Copy Share Image
I love really exploring... you know, a cop drama for example is a great way to explore class in this country and… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
“I have a problem,’ said Nikolai Nikolaivitch Asterinov, getting to his feet. ‘I have a problem, that I wish to share with… — Adam Roberts Copy Share Image
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“I don't want to be a machine, and I don't want to think about war," EPICAC had written after Pat's and my… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
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There are very real differences between science fiction and realistic fiction, between horror and fantasy, between romance and mystery. Differences in writing… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
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