By serializing two novels in 'Analog,' the world's No. 1, best-selling science fiction magazine, I've had 200,000 words of fiction and three… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“No…you can ask for a beautiful, witty, intelligent yet minxy woman in your arms every night, a mansion on a hill—or better… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
For bedtime reading, I usually curl up with a good monograph on quantum physics or string theory, my specialty. But since I… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene -- and something… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I think anything that opens my mind and triggers my imagination I'm reading. I like to read science fiction and imagine the… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi… — Yochai Benkler Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by the brain. I wrote a lot about brain-tech in my first non-fiction book, 'More Than Human.' So… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
If you look at the films that I've done generally, you would probably get an idea of what I'm most interested in,… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
“«“I meant, tell me all about this steampunk thing!” Gavin broke in. “How does that concept work out for you people, here… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
Incidentally, I am honorary president of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the great science fiction writer and biochemist Dr. Isaac Asimov.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Science fiction does not attempt to predict. It extrapolates. It just says, "What if?" not what will be? Because you can never… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“What are you about?" said the vehicle as a panel popped open to reveal delicate components. "I am not accustomed to such… — Matthew Hughes Copy Share Image
A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Standing in front of the white picket fence, I stared at the multitude of champagne roses weaving their hunter green vines gracefully… — Leah Lozano Copy Share Image
A couple of hundred years from now, maybe [science fiction writers] Isaac Asimov and Fred Pohl will be considered the important philosophers… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
“I simply regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world created therein has different rules than my regular… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
“I guess I should thank you for totally making my morning. It’s not every day a stranger notices my perspiration level. -… — Richard Finney Copy Share Image
What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
In a single lifetime, roughly from 1865 to 1930, one finds the pioneering and patterning works of modern fantasy, science fiction, children's… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
It's kind of cool that I know of all this great science fiction being written in China, and most of it is… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's hard for me to understand that people can believe in me, that they can trust that I'll be anything more… — Michael A. Martin & Andy Mangels Copy Share Image
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
In fantasy, impossible things exist. In science fiction, impossible things exist and can be understood by humans. In supernatural horror, impossible things… — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
“Spoon boy: Do not try and bend the spoon - that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth. Neo: What truth?… — The Wachowski Brothers Copy Share Image
My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I wasn't a big science fiction aficionado, there were a few films like 2001 or Blade Runner that were favorites of mine,… — Joe Flanigan Copy Share Image
Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn't get too smart, because as soon… — Luis von Ahn Copy Share Image
“Dammit, Gage. What the hell were you thinking?” “I wasn’t,” he shouts. “I was upset she wanted to stay, and I lost… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“Perhaps Mozart’s Requiem would be fitting music for the end of the world. She began to hum Dies Irae, recalling its first… — Barry Kirwan Copy Share Image
“God is a hack,” he said. “He’s a writer on an awful science fiction television show, and He can’t plot His way… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
“A mix of revenge, sadness and anger funnels into a decision that’s so simple and neat, it could fit in my pocket.… — Georgia Clark Copy Share Image
“Avery slides on his glasses and opens his eyes again. “Dammit!” he says again with more feeling. “Why does stuff like this… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“You've got to have an imagination to make it to the stars. The sort of species that wouldn't invent science fiction, probably… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
How could you possibly call something science fiction at this point unless it has to do with something that hasn't been done?… — El-P Copy Share Image
In an era when the nation's collective imagination is no longer captured by space, real science sometimes has a smaller budget than… — Peter Kendall Copy Share Image
“My relative examined you, observed a few of your normal body cells, compared them with what it had learned from other humans… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
“Please take note that any and all dragon petting will be at your own peril. We are not liable for any injuries… — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
There's a thing with genre movies and science fiction movies that number two is the charmed; two seems to be the best.… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
I think horror or science fiction is another way of telling a modern myth - it's like Ancient Greece; it's like kids… — Reg E. Cathey Copy Share Image
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