There are very real differences between science fiction and realistic fiction, between horror and fantasy, between romance and mystery. Differences in writing… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism. — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write.… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
The most visceral science fiction always takes place in the past and focuses on the humdrum — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
Science fiction is not necessarily either fiction or anything to do with science. — Judith Merril Copy Share Image
Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
“Expect an army of Vigil drones, nearly as a many Praesidis guards, a Machim ground detachment of super-soldiers and at least one… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
“She didn’t watch the dead, ancient bone-chess cities slide under, or the old canals filled with emptiness and dreams. Past dry rivers… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“HAPPINESS FOR EVERYBODY, FREE, AND NO ONE WILL GO AWAY UNSATISFIED!” — Arkady Strugatsky Copy Share Image
In accordance with the terms of the Clarke-Asimov treaty, the second-best science writer dedicates this book to the second-best science-fiction writer. [dedication… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“We are the middle children of history. Born too late to explore earth, born too early to explore space.” — Anonymous 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
Whenever I read a contemporary literary novel that describes the world we're living in, I wait for the science fiction tools to… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I do think that science fiction ideas are best expressed through visual media like film and TV. Realist literature depicts things that… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Reality is but several levels of consciousness that can be accepted or dismissed depending on what one perceives.” — Lauren Lola Copy Share Image
In Technologized Desire, the cultural pathologies that mark the panic ecstasy and terminal doom of the posthuman condition are powerfully rehearsed in… — Arthur Kroker Copy Share Image
My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
The nice thing about 'Futurama' for me personally was that it was a way to honor some of the traditional ideas in… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
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