Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“If the world explore all my dark fantasy, will change for the better”.” — Alexandar Tomov Copy Share Image
What got my interested in science fiction was actually the American space program. — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction. We live in a space ship, dear. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
“Yes, 1960’s North American sitcoms have led me to study the United States 1920’s and 1930’s crime bosses— QET Jenkins” — Kim Welsman Copy Share Image
“I tell you it's deadly when you start thinking your wife might be right.” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
I was only eight when Sputnik was launched, and at that age the boundary between science and fiction is pretty blurry. Whichever… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
I've been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my 'Star Trek' character and I've been turning them… — Marina Sirtis Copy Share Image
I've only written one science-fiction book: 'Fahrenheit 451.' That book is a book based on real facts and my hatred of people… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“People say, 'Time heals all wounds.' That may be true, but relocating to an alternate reality can sure help too." -Excerpt from… — Nathan Van Coops Copy Share Image
I've always had a real interest in the way that science fiction can portray a world that could be different to our… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
The Place of No Shadows, in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine (1990) In our Universe, matter is arranged in a hierarchy of… — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
“Every morning when I wake up, I ask myself, "Why was I born?" Then I answer myself, "You were born to be… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise.… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
“The Novoloume gazed in interest around the cabin. “So the whispers are true—Kats, SAIs and Humans have come to join with the… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
For those who resist the notion that the mainstream is a genre, we recommend that they browse the shelves of their local… — James Patrick Kelly Copy Share Image
“Kate opens a jar of honey and pours a thick line of the sticky stuff over the top edge of the wound.… — Kari Aguila Copy Share Image
“The storage capacity of the average human brain is two-hundred and fifty-six exabytes. However, the average adult human only uses approximately one… — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
I was on a panel with light skinned Blacks and a famous gay science fiction writer, who were complaining about how Blacks… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
“I looked at Victor, my heart swelling from the emotion. “When I die, please do the same ceremony for me,” I whispered,… — A.B.Whelan Copy Share Image
“Franz said 'Your picture, Viki, suggests that sense of breaking-up we feel in the modern world. Families, nations, classes, other loyalty groups… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
“Dad takes a step back, one hand still on my shoulder, and reaches into his pocket. He draws out a little blue… — Emily Skrutskie Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as magic. Just that which you do not understand.” — Ron Alias Copy Share Image
“In the world union, prosperity is a science, self-interest a new religion, peace is at hand and the future has never looked… — B. Barmanbek Copy Share Image
“It's--my God--like you stretched a tarp across a stadium to turn it into a giant tom-tom and crashed a 747 into it.” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Oh, do shut up, boy. It’s not like I’ve ever been one for goodbyes.", FADE by Kailin Gow” — Kailin Gow Copy Share Image
“I write science fiction because that is what publishers call my books. Left to myself, I should call them novels.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“We are now in a position to determine just what sort of science fiction story this really is.” — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem. — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“What will I do if I find myself with a heart?" "Lose it constantly, I imagine.” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention. — Jack Williamson Copy Share Image
I would much rather watch a horror film or science fiction than a comedy. I don't know why. I just like them.… — Moon Bloodgood Copy Share Image
“When I wake I ask myself, how much longer before they will just let me die?" - Tier, Clutch” — J.A. Huss Copy Share Image
“Fred always goes with Daphne and Shaggy always sticks with Velma." "Well then, in that case, I'm Scooby.” — Peter Clines Copy Share Image
There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.' — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building. — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image