Most of my work is science fiction, with many a spaceship but few cars. — Jim Starlin Copy Share Image
“His appearance projected danger and reinforced the common knowledge that one did not want to piss off a demon, especially this one.” — Kiersten Fay Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“What will we be doing, when everything that can be done, can be done better by robots?” — Humberto Contreras Copy Share Image
My music is pretty honest. I can't rap on science fiction. Punk is from the street. — Rick James Copy Share Image
Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities. — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“Cale! Have you had a female in here?” Calic laughed carelessly. “Depends on when you're referring to.” — Kiersten Fay Copy Share Image
Science fiction is about things that plausibly might happen. Grounding my work in the real world helps make that clear. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers aren't in the prediction business; they're in the speculation business, using 'hasn't happened' or 'hasn't happened yet' to create… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
“Jessie was trying to read science fiction but nothing she read so far could begin to match ordinary life on this planet,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Because of an imaginary voice, Nicholas had become a whole person; rather than the partial person he had been in Berkeley. If… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science fiction as a kid… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“The day I die, I’ll be too busy thinking to notice” he waved his hand as he left the ship. - Nelson… — A.Z. Kelvin Copy Share Image
[A] science fiction story is one which presupposes a technology, or an effect of technology, or a disturbance in the natural order,… — Edmund Crispin Copy Share Image
“Just a cat! Just a cat! I am the stealer of breaths, the walker of shadows, the keeper of nine lives.” —the… — Richard Due Copy Share Image
“She waits for his reprimand or words of disapproval. He kisses her instead. Hard. Lips demanding, fingers tightening on her chin. He… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
For if there were a list of cosmic things that unite us, reader and writer, visible as it scrolled up into the… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“So. Our little pearl of warmth, our spinning orrery of lives, our island, our beloved solar system, our hearth and home, tight… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Men grow up expecting to be the hero of their own story. Women grow up expecting to be the supporting actress in… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
“Nearly everywhere I've been, popular wisdom has it that the location of humanity's original planet is unknown, mysterious. In fact it isn't,… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
“When asked to "define the difference between fantasy and science fiction," I mouth and mumble and always end up talking about the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The ratio of authentic literature to trash in pornography may be somewhat lower than the ratio of novels of genuine literary meritto… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In a science fiction movie, the first act is a little longer than it is in most movies because there is so… — Joseph Kosinski Copy Share Image
FEAR IS THE MIND-KILLER. FEAR IS THE LITTLE-DEATH THAT BRINGS TOTAL OBLITERATION. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“The day the nation voted on whether I’d live or die, I woke up with a headache.” — S.E. Bennett Copy Share Image
Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“There’s still much to do; still so much to learn. Mr. La Forge – engage!” — Captain Picard Copy Share Image
Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
A good friend is someone who gets ya drunk and then walks ya home afterwards. — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I love fairytales. I like fantasy a lot, science fiction, I like magic. I like to create magic. I love magic. — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
“Time keeps ticking away, unaware of the suffering each second generates. Time doesn’t care, because if it did, it would’ve reversed.” — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer. — China Mieville Copy Share Image
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
“Step up to red alert." Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb." - Rimmer & Kryten, "Red Dwarf” — Rob Grant; Grant Naylor Copy Share Image
“You’re insane.” “It’ll work.” “Which does not alter the fact that you are insane.” — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
For me, a kitchen is like science fiction. I only go there to open the refrigerator and take something out. — Ann-Margret Copy Share Image
Battlestar' could sound like whatever I wanted it to sound like, because in the science fiction environment, there are no rules. — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image