Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define… — Tom Shippey Copy Share Image
I'm very picky with what I read. It's a specific genre of science fiction. — Robert Whittaker Copy Share Image
“In some very rare cases, an opposite-sex pair was born, and they always mated one another. Disturbing as it might sound, when… — Belinda McBride Copy Share Image
“The Somnium makes clear to us, although it did not to all of Kepler’s contemporaries, that “in a dream one must be… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more… — Joe Morton Copy Share Image
Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“Is the beauty of the Whole really enhanced by our agony? And is the Whole really beautiful? And what is beauty? Throughout… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
Fantasy is fantasy. It's fiction. It's not meant to be a textbook. I don't believe in letting research overwhelm the fiction. That's… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“It didn’t belong to anything and nothing belonged to it. It searched for eternities trying to find a host… a carrier… a… — E.C. Lemus Copy Share Image
“Rigorous extrapolation, a gosh-wow love of gadgets, and mystical adventures in strange and mysterious places; every major stream in speculative fiction today… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange… — China Mieville 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
“When they explore opportunity cost of black blood I hear ancient corridors survived on the neck of ancient souls Satellite empires, the… — Omondi Ochuka Copy Share Image
“She'd crossed into a place where truth, even if it was brutal, was all she had to offer.” — Hillary Jordan Copy Share Image
“You stumble upon an unhappy Martian sentry on a mission and shoot ineffectually at his powersuit a few times before he pulps… — Daniel Keidl Copy Share Image
I'm not the sort of fellow who does the same thing all the time. I began using a lot of science fiction… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
“The Extinction of the Human Race now underway. Watch it live as it happens - Is it too late to stop it?… — Michael Mathiesen Copy Share Image
Those of us who thought Jorge Luis Borges was a pioneer of magical realism were mistaken; he was a pioneer of science… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Making a living out of acting sounded like science-fiction when I was growing up. I didn't know anyone around me who lived… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
“A person is what he says and does; that's how you learn whether his reputation was earned or manufactured.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
“I assert nothing, I content myself with believing that more is possible than people think.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Her mum is leaning against the wall, arms crossed, when Summer exits. “Gage left from here a few minutes ago,” she says,… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“Yes, rules are made to be broken -- but ONLY if you have a damn good reason for doing it.” — Kevin Hosey Copy Share Image
