“Why are you in my room?” “Because I can be.” “You shouldn’t be.” “Save it, Rochester. You broke my nose.” “Does it… — Lindy Zart Copy Share Image
I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility,… — Wesley Snipes Copy Share Image
'Filk' is the folk music of the science fiction and fantasy community - you get parodies, you get traditional music that's had… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
He'd met other prodigies in mathematical competitions. In fact he'd been thoroughly trounced by competitors who probably spent literally all day practising… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“When I see your scars, do I want to erase them? Absolutely. But not your physical scars. The real ones, beneath the… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“He drank, for the same reason he wrote second-rate science fiction. Not to forget but to remember, to open the past and… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Science fiction that's just about people wandering around in space ships shooting each other with ray guns is very dull. I like… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
“Dreams deny her the freedom she truly seeks. Darkness consumes. Leg muscles burn. She runs away, even while lost in the paradise… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
I love outsider stories. And I also like a lot of genre fiction, too. So I wanted to write a literary book… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
“If patterns of ones and zeroes were "like" patterns of human lives and deaths, if everything about an individual could be represented… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“That was another thing people used to be able to do, which they can't do anymore: enjoy in their heads events which… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“My father and I used to watch a ton of old horror movies when I was growing up. ’The Creature from the… — Richard Finney Copy Share Image
One of the dangers of science fiction, particularly bad science fiction, is that you have these scenes where the characters turn to… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Inevitably, his vision verged toward the fantastic; he published a scattering of stories - most included in this volume - which appeared… — Barry N. Malzberg Copy Share Image
“Complete. What an awful word for an infected people, that final, animal stage that was the future of all of them. Chels… — Daniel Ausema Copy Share Image
“ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax.. you cannot support yourself… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Harl whirled round, all his attention ... on Skulker. "What is that on your carapace?""What?" Skulker tried to peer back... A tinny… — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
“The postmodernist belief in the relativism of truth, coupled with the clicker culture of mass media, in which attention spans are measured… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“I don't like killing, but I'm good at it. Murder isn't so bad from a distance, just shapes popping up in my… — Graeme Shimmin Copy Share Image
I can think of very few science books I've read that I've called useful. What they've been is wonderful. They've actually made… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
Most science fiction is about tomorrow, a tomorrow brought to you by innovations in science and technology, and China was worried that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“And strange were the tales of the pond in the meadow, And eager we listened with eyes opened wide To Those tales… — J.R. Withers Copy Share Image
I don't think that VR is going to lead to humanity being enslaved in the matrix or letting the world crumble around… — Palmer Luckey Copy Share Image
“As sci-fi writer Theodore Sturgeon said, 90 percent of everything is crap. But science fiction has not been forgiven for its crap.… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“She hoped he could move on one day and find happiness. He had the luxury to try. She hoped he would succeed.… — Kiersten Fay Copy Share Image
“All of the things that were shown in early studies to be good for longevity—happy marriages, healthy bodies—are ours to have. We… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Imagine you are Siri Keeton: You wake in an agony of resurrection, gasping after a record-shattering bout of sleep apnea spanning one… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“Sooner or later it must come out, even if other men rediscover it. And then...Governments and powers will struggle to get hither,… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“We both knew the place we were at and what that meant. We both felt the regret and the loss. We both… — Megan Duke Copy Share Image
“You people do not have to live like this!" the man pleaded. "We are humans, made in the image of God. No… — Donald Allen Kirch Copy Share Image
Science fiction, in its purest form, for me, it works the best when it's being used as metaphor to look at something… — Noah Wyle Copy Share Image
I suppose that literature as it is won't die, science fiction included. But games are becoming an extremely important part of the… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
“Fiction is dangerous because it lets you into other people's heads. It shows you that the world doesn't have to be like… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Atlantis sinks. Serves it right. Red hates the place. For one thing, there are so many Atlantises, always sinking, in so many… — Amal El-Mohtar Copy Share Image
“Back in the day, the story goes, four science fiction writers - Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Frank Herbert and L Ron Hubbard… — John Sweeney Copy Share Image
The cool thing for me is, I go to a lot of conventions - a lot of science fiction conventions like Comic-Con… — J. August Richards Copy Share Image
“I must warn you, my story isn’t a pretty one: abductions, time-traveling dragons, the Order of the Black Fez, highly verbal cats,… — Richard Due Copy Share Image
“Hi Clara. I thought you would need someone to walk with today, so here I am.” Sorin, her friend that lived in… — Paige Ray Copy Share Image
I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
