“Blood drummed in her ears and adrenaline coursed through her veins, driving her to move. To act. Her hands trembled against his… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
We live on a minute island of known things. Our undiminished wonder at the mystery which surrounds us is what makes us… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
As a child I always steered clear of science fiction, but in the autumn of 1977, the bow-wave of publicity for the… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
“Rachel Henson stood facing him, immaculate in her uniform and ready for duty as always. She looked as though she had spent… — Peter James West Copy Share Image
When it comes to the things that people really want in science fiction - like space travel - the simplest things end… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
In France, it's always about life, normal life. We always stick with these realistic things. So when French people are dreaming about… — Berenice Bejo Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, breaking out of a certain mentality is like planning a prison break. You can't just go for it and hope for… — Lauren Lola Copy Share Image
I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood… — Gil Gerard Copy Share Image
“As her feet beat the concrete ground beneath them, her chest began to ache. It had been a long time since she… — Ross Caligiuri Copy Share Image
“The will of God or the lunacy of man - it seemed to him that you could take your choice, if you… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
“That year the Ribeiro's daffodils seeded early and they seeded cockroaches. Now, ecologically speaking, even a cockroach has its place -- but… — Janet Kagan Copy Share Image
“Case shuffled into the nearest door and watched the other passengers as he rode. A pair of predatory-looking Christian Scientists were edging… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“There is so much morbo festering between these two sides that they would have to employ a very powerful priest to exorcise… — Phil Ball Copy Share Image
“His mind, grooved through the uncounted ages to ultimate despair, soared up insanely. His legs and arms glistened like tongues of living… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not the sort of fellow who does the same thing all the time. I began using a lot of science fiction… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
“Leela: Why are we listening to them? It is a waste of time. The Doctor; It is difficult to know what will… — Chris Boucher Copy Share Image
As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
As a science fiction and fantasy writer, I used to love writing bleak, grimdark futures full of bleak, grimdark people. But I've… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
“You brothers-such a nest of rivalries. I warned him to make you sisters, that it would make things more civilized. He thought… — Chris Wraight Copy Share Image
Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and… — Hugo Gernsback Copy Share Image
Take 'Ex Machina.' Everyone said it was one of the great feminist works of science fiction. But what I found disappointing is… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
Science fiction was one of those places, particularly during the McCarthy era, where you could write whatever you wanted because it was… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“I still have the scars from when they captured me and beat me in the middle of the street." "You don't get… — Amy Tintera Copy Share Image
Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that… — Lalla Ward Copy Share Image
What if most of the technologies readers and cinemagoers are presented with in bestselling books and blockbuster movies are not science fiction,… — James Morcan Copy Share Image
“I was his heartbeat. I was his fucking universe. Now I was, but soon I wouldn't be. I would miss that, miss… — Lisa Henry Copy Share Image
I believe in what science fiction can do, which is it can set up simple rules that it has to follow to… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths. One of the themes is the overextension of credit, the nature of being… — Forest Whitaker 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
Attempting to define science fiction is an undertaking almost as difficult, though not so popular, as trying to define pornography... In both… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“HARD SF and EPIC FANTASY – both of these forms have been conventionalised, proscribed and prescribed, such that they constitute valid GENRES… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
Science-fiction fans are the most loyal fans in the world. It's true. They'll watch things that you actually should give them their… — Katee Sackhoff Copy Share Image
I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate - it helps us look at our society from a different… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
I'm not so fond of the sort of science fiction that isn't really science fiction but is sometimes thought to be -… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I've always loved science fiction, fantasy, manga, comic books; so I guess, to some degree, those things influence my personal idea of… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became… — Daniel Goldstein Copy Share Image
The science fiction I write comes from a pretty deep pool of literature, not just from the reflection of other science fiction… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
As a fan of science fiction and as a kid who loves monsters, science fiction movies and this, that and the other,… — Kevin Grevioux Copy Share Image
I like the Sci Fi channel and 'Science Fiction Theatre.' I've been doing a lot of television-watching and thinking about good songs… — Roky Erickson Copy Share Image
