Sometimes the most effective idea was just so simple that…

The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.

— Octavia Butler

I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some…

— Edward Einhorn

“But eggshells were made to be broken, and slamming into a 100-story skyscraper at the speed of light would likely do the deed.”

— Maureen A. Miller

“I’m not sure sex qualifies as R and R, but it’s a compromise I can live with.”

— Shelby Morgen

“The ultimate aim of reality is to become science fiction!”

— Eli Of Kittim

“And so we go.”

— D.J. MacHale

“Science fiction and fantasy, though they seem to be about the future or fictional worlds, are always at their core really about the problems…

— John Joseph Adams

“What we've done is make the categories of science fiction and fantasy larger, freer, and more inclusive than any other genre of contemporary literature.…

— Orson Scott Card

As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,…

— Ray Bradbury

You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more…

— Neil Gaiman

Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics -…

— Michael Dirda

I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood Still, which…

— Gil Gerard

My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'

— Brian Aldiss

“To love was a privilege not afforded to those of us born in these trying times when survival was never guaranteed. We were products…

— Molly X. Chang

“Listen: Common sense doesn't mean what it used to mean." -Matthias Chalmers, STAIRWAY2 HEAVEN”

— Chaz Thompson