“The best sci-fi stories use the fantastical to remind us of the reality of who we are today, the hope of who… — Julio-Alexi Genao Copy Share Image
There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Whatever you do, don’t make it worse by trying to come up with some flimsy excuse for why you were in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Are there, as science fiction and Gnostic speculation imply, different species of time in the same world, 'good time' and enveloping folds… — William Styron Copy Share Image
There's always been a little bit of tension between the writers of science fiction literature and then science-fiction televised shows or movies,… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
“...hence the very best science fiction ultimately winds up being a collaboration between author and reader, in which both create - and… — Philip K Dick Copy Share Image
“Britain isn't a world power any more. Its just like a zombie in that regard; it doesn't know when it's dead -… — Paul Xavier Jones Copy Share Image
“If a boy can manage to have coffee with me during the apocalypse, I know he cares. There’s not a speck of… — Caroline George Copy Share Image
“So, in the end, above ground you must have the Haves, pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty, and below ground the Have-nots,… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“The most difficult speculation for a science fiction writer to undertake is to imagine correctly the *secondary* implications of a new factor.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I don't think any religion makes any sense and I think people who are into that are really getting duped, and I… — Howard Stern Copy Share Image
Seventeen years after its intial release, The Empire Strikes Back is still as thrilling and involving as ever. Because of the high… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
“The winged human glanced towards Retina briefly. “It’s okay Dr. Blade. Scientists should never be blown away from the nature of facts.”… — Dew Platt Copy Share Image
“The mice were furious." [...] "Oh yes," said the old man mildly. "Yes well so I expect were the dogs and cats… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Science fiction and fantasy are very closely related genres, and a lot of people say that the genres are so close that… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
“My mother neither encouraged the reading of science fiction nor did she disparage it. She told me later that there was a… — Don Borchert Copy Share Image
“There is more important work to be done here. The strong must lead us into a new energy age before our world… — Donna Galanti Copy Share Image
Science fiction went through a period that was mostly object-oriented or inventions for distant galaxies.But when we cracked the genetic DNA code,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
All the pictures I do are contemporary. I've sort of discovered I haven't really been into science fiction or period pictures. And… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
It's horrid to be called a Shakespearean actor because that's incredibly limiting, and we love acting. We like telling stories; anything that… — Timothy Dalton Copy Share Image
'Altered Carbon' is one of the most seminal pieces of post-cyberpunk hard science fiction out there - a dark, complex noir story… — Laeta Kalogridis Copy Share Image
“She loves dogs. And in time, who knows, maybe she would even have ended up loving the type of dogs who eat… — Richard Finney Copy Share Image
Quite often, intent on conveying how things can go wrong for a culture (science fiction) or an individual (horror) or all of… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“Jake's in trouble.' Luca rolled his eyes. 'What now?' 'He's gone off somewhere, I think I know where, and I don't think… — Sharon Sant Copy Share Image
“The ultimate downfall of the computerized holographic receptionist was that there was no amount of flattery, flirtation or chocolate that could convince… — Scott B. Pruden Copy Share Image
“They do think the world is some kind of science-fiction novel, then. Do you realize how fervently most people will believe in… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“You couldn’t just tell an octillion atoms to drop whatever they were doing, rearrange themselves into a completely new configuration and do… — Jester Bobbity Copy Share Image
“I mean that you and I know that in this universe, God is a hack," he said. "He's a writer on an… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
Epic science fiction game, that's always been on my mind. Post-apocalyptic, 'Fallout,' was our first choice. Sci-fi was our second at the… — Todd Howard Copy Share Image
Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction; I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“It wasn't till Sebastian began to stalk toward her that she recalled her situation. She was wet and half naked, alone in… — Kiersten Fay Copy Share Image
Star Trek, I thought, was a very inconsistent show, which at times sparkled with true ingenuity and pure science fiction approaches, and… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
“You’ve never been ugly.” The boy looked down at his hand filling the blank spaces in a science fiction scene. “Women treat… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
The idea of doing a period movie, some people say, "Isn't it odd that you're doing a period movie? That's a change… — Paul W. S. Anderson Copy Share Image
Social progress is a big thing for me. Although science fiction is traditionally concerned with the hard sciences, which is chemistry, physics,… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
It's ironic: In movies, the most successful films of all time have been sci-fi or fantasy. By far. But a lot of… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
Having done, you know, science fiction, I didn't want to get trapped in science fiction. So my eclecticism was my only conscious… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human,… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future. — Hugo Gernsback Copy Share Image
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