“I can’t help but ask, “Do you know where you are?” She turns to me with a foreboding glare. “Do you?” — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
“I stoped reading science fiction once I saw that the UFO was real. It became science fact that just hasn't been proven… — Mike Bird Copy Share Image
“Listen: Common sense doesn't mean what it used to mean." -Matthias Chalmers, STAIRWAY2 HEAVEN” — Chaz Thompson Copy Share Image
I've always been a reader of science fiction, and I have loved a lot of feminist science fiction. — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the… — Bernard Werber Copy Share Image
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Help!" he yelled and he lifted one leg, trying to run. But you can't outrun the membrane — he was soon gone.” — Carol Moreira Copy Share Image
“Michael Swan-wick’s Periodic Table of Science Fiction, short-shorts inspired by the periodic table of the elements.” — David G. Hartwell Copy Share Image
“She felt a soft brush of lips against her forehead, heard the other woman murmur, "Sleep now, chére." Chére, Hannah though. Cherished.… — Hillary Jordan Copy Share Image
Historically, I guess that's how science fiction works: you start by using aliens to think the unthinkable and then, eventually, another… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I'm not really a science-fiction fan, I quite like the idea of getting away from the science-fiction side of it, for two… — Sarah Sutton Copy Share Image
I probably would never be able to direct a comedy because I'm not that funny. I don't have that funny bone in… — Luke Scott Copy Share Image
Without science fiction, without the influence these books have had on me over the years, I'm not sure I would care much… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
I'm not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and… — Mark Goddard Copy Share Image
“If the only option you leave poor people with is to resort to violence in order to survive, they’ll do just that.… — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
“No, when the time comes, I’m sure I’ll kill just like everybody else. I can’t go down without a fight. Only I… — Suzanne Collins 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
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
The appeal of science fiction has always been its iconoclasm . . . But in order to be an iconoclast, an author… — Alfred Bester 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 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
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
“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
Science fiction is one of the smartest genres around because you have to have so much forethought. — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“She prayed for that all through the night, uncertain to Whom or what, but with a feeling that almost resembled faith.” — Hillary Jordan Copy Share Image
If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
Science fiction really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
“If you don't leave room for the unexpected to express itself in your life, you close yourself off from the possibility of… — Robert Stikmanz Copy Share Image
“Almost everything carried to its logical extreme becomes either depressing or carcinogenic.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
We live in a science fiction universe. We have done for a long time. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I don't really read non-fiction, but I have grown up on a steady diet of Wodehouse and, of course, science fiction. — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck. — Ray Bradbury 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
Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“This is the power and promise of science fiction, this magic of creating and living in every possible future.” — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
“He saw the rules of life clearly for the first time and they were simple: it was a game where Death was… — Sharon Sant Copy Share Image
Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
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