Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I did a lot of science fiction, and I've done a number of post-apocalyptic science fiction environments. — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
“I’ve come to accept the voices in my head… I just wish they didn’t spit when they talk.” — Gibson Michaels Copy Share Image
The comedy and character interaction on 'Atlantis' is what makes it so different from most science fiction shows. — David Hewlett Copy Share Image
“Any beginning is also an ending, you know. You can’t have just the one.” — Suzette Haden Elgin Copy Share Image
“A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Deckard.” — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Science fiction shows are traditionally about the gimmick or the gadget and tend to be emotionally cool to the touch. — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be "a writer"; I only ever aspired to be an science fiction writer. They'll tear that badge out… — Alastair Reynolds 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
I think there's always been a traditionally apocalyptic side to British science fiction, from H.G. Wells onwards. I mean, most of Wells'… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“They had just digested a recent meal of prepositions and were happily farting out apostrophes and ampersands; the air was heav'y with… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Another oral exam, huh?' Peter said. 'Shut up, Peter,' said Valentine. 'You should relax and enjoy it,' said Peter. 'It could be… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I'm tired of being considered a lesbian writer, tired of being a science-fiction writer, tired of being a thriller writer. I'm a… — Nicola Griffith Copy Share Image
Science fiction has traditionally been economically naive, with a strong libertarian streak, which I think is like a crude Leninism. That's attractive… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of… — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share Image
“Investors include former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Google cofounder Larry Page. Planetary Resources’ lead was followed in 2013 by a firm… — Stephen L. Petranek Copy Share Image
“Weird fiction is a strange beast, an eclectic genre (or subgenre). It originated in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century through… — Helen Marshall Copy Share Image
I've always resented the force of attraction that traps me here on Planet Earth. It makes me feel like a bug stuck… — Charles Platt Copy Share Image
“She didn’t want to be the savior of humanity. She never had. She didn’t want to be the vanguard—of destruction or salvation.… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
That's what 'Star Trek' was: We don't know how to make an ideal society, but we're going to portray that, and then… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“Her head dropped into her hands. Dammit! She’d spent months preparing for the challenges of a war against an immortal enemy wielding… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it's the alien equivalent of a discarded tomato can. Does a beetle know why it can enter the can only from… — Algis Budrys Copy Share Image
The genius is not in how much Stanley Kubrick does in “2001: A Space Odyssey,'' but in how little. This is the… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“There was no sign of any life, just erratic hints of a faded sun peeking down with sorrow on the dead world… — C.J. Anderson Copy Share Image
Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy. — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden. — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
In science fiction a fantastic event or development is considered rationally. — James Gunn Copy Share Image
My mother was a part of a reading group, but they would never come near science fiction because they think it's not… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers. — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“Vashti was seized with the terrors of direct experience. She shrank back into the room, and the wall closed up again.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“There are limits to human beings and science, and fiction is one way to expose those limits. --Ono Norihiro” — Patrick W. Galbraith Copy Share Image
Don't stay with someone who drives you crazy. Find someone who keeps you sane. — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
“Even when the world throws it worst and then turns in its back, there is still always hope” — Pittacus Lore Copy Share Image
“She liked who she was becoming, despite the pain and frustration it brought.” — B. Barmanbek Copy Share Image
Technological prescience in science fiction usually requires an author with luck. Societal prescience requires a poet. — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
“First of all, you're dead. Secondly, I cut off your head. Thirdly... yes, I know that rhymed, you really don't have to… — Gayle Ramage Copy Share Image
“Monster' is a relative term; to a canary, a cat is a monster. We're just used to being the cat.” — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Science fiction is about extrapolation, looking back through history, spotting a trend, and predicting where it will go. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“Love or hate my work. I write not to impress. It's just in me to give.” — Anne-Rae Vasquez Copy Share Image
