“Science fiction inspires scientists, but it doesn't exist to dictate what our future should look like. Great science fiction is fun to… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
“At his booming voice, her eyes flew open. If he wasn't already on the ground, he would have fallen to his knees.… — Kiersten Fay Copy Share Image
“Time slowed as metal shards enveloped her like shattered glass. None pierced her of course, but it seemed as though she might… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
“One day I found him amid large packages from which spilled attractive, glossy paperbacks with mythical covers. He had tried to use,… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“When asked to "define the difference between fantasy and science fiction," I mouth and mumble and always end up talking about the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Nearly everywhere I've been, popular wisdom has it that the location of humanity's original planet is unknown, mysterious. In fact it isn't,… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
“Men grow up expecting to be the hero of their own story. Women grow up expecting to be the supporting actress in… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“So. Our little pearl of warmth, our spinning orrery of lives, our island, our beloved solar system, our hearth and home, tight… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
For if there were a list of cosmic things that unite us, reader and writer, visible as it scrolled up into the… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“I opened the door and stepped in. Raw pain filled me at the sight of my painting. 'Show me what it looked… — Kimberly Kinrade Copy Share Image
“normal is an opinion from a man just like the rest of us, to function just like society is an idea, that… — Tashie McKay Copy Share Image
“Rissa Kerguelen by F. M. Busby. I read this now largely forgotten science fiction book at about the time I was starting… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“I rouse Emily to our guests, as she finishes off our fifteenth snowman by setting the head atop its torso. She stands… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
Much blood has also been spilled on the carpet in attempts to distinguish between science fiction and fantasy. I have suggested an… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The ratio of authentic literature to trash in pornography may be somewhat lower than the ratio of novels of genuine literary meritto… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the branch of literature that deals with the effects of change on people in the real world as it… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
One of the nice things about 'Redshirts' getting onto the actual best-seller list, and doing as well as it has been doing,… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
For me, the best thing about Cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to terrify me.… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
One of the advantages of having gone to Penn State was having had a scholar for a mentor - Philip Young. Also,… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
In Technologized Desire, the cultural pathologies that mark the panic ecstasy and terminal doom of the posthuman condition are powerfully rehearsed in… — Arthur Kroker Copy Share Image
“Maybe it won’t come as too much of a surprise that a certain amount of alcohol was involved with this Darwin Award… — Jody Summers Copy Share Image
“That’s very trusting.” Iris watches Anke search our backpacks. “We’re saving people’s lives. We thought we could be,”Anke says. I’m more fixated… — Corinne Duyvis Copy Share Image
Notice how every science fiction movie or television show starts with a shot of the location where the story is about to… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
There's a fine line between imagination and reality. An inventor dreams something up, and pretty soon, it's there on the table before… — Ridley Pearson Copy Share Image
“The castle of Enysfarne was a dark and towering force that hovered over what was left of my innocence. It contained my… — Charles A. Cornell Copy Share Image
By isolating the issues of race, gender, sexual orientation, climate change, environment, governance, economics, catastrophe and whatever other problems the present embodies… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
The appeal of science fiction has always been its iconoclasm . . . But in order to be an iconoclast, an author… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
“Recently there came a period when I had little to do. This was novel in a life so crammed with busy years,… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Eric, you need to look at the whole picture," the PM said. "You look at the jobless as a huge pile of… — Mark Cantrell Copy Share Image
“Reading wasn't an attempt to educate myself. It was my chief escape from a world that, although gorgeous in landscape and rich… — Chris Offutt Copy Share Image
'Confederate,' in all of our minds, will be an alternative-history show. It's a science-fiction show. One of the strengths of science fiction… — D. B. Weiss Copy Share Image
“This world must differ from the given in at least one way, and this one way must be sufficient to give rise… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“... we have created a man with not one brain but two. ... This new brain is intended to control the biological… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“But ideal cities are very much the product of their own ages. Designed as complete urban statements, they bear the unmistakable imprint… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe what is in fact going… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“One of the leading figures in quantum physics, Niels Bohr, would sometimes tell his students, “The problem with your idea is not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
