All the science fiction I loved as a kid was holding up a mirror to society and warning us about the need… — Laeta Kalogridis Copy Share Image
“The difference between virtuality and life is very simple. In a construct you know everything is being run by an all-powerful machine.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“That excuse only works until you discover the person is merely an individual like any other.” — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens. — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
“For my money, noir boils down to bleak humanism – or, to put it more plainly: shit options, bad decisions, and dire… — Chris F. Holm Copy Share Image
I just read the scripts that come to me, and I see the ones which I really kind of understand and connect… — Asa Butterfield Copy Share Image
“But I belong here. I could live here…hiding from the others, living among their consciences and their fears; why not? Could this… — E.C. Lemus Copy Share Image
Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be—a particularly important exercise… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“Brother Cavil: In all your travels, have you ever seen a star go supernova? ... I have. I saw a star explode… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does… — David Brin Copy Share Image
There are lots of futurists that spend their whole life trying to figure out who we're going to be in 40, 50,… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image
“She feels a little sad. Is she sad? Helen considers an alternative: She is dehydrated.” — Meg Howrey Copy Share Image
“The rulers were using ancient knowledge to manipulate the amygdaloidal primal fear. They ruled through fear, preternatural fear created through soft, invisible… — Amira Aly Copy Share Image
“Charlie smiled. ‘Actually, right now I feel like venting; maybe seeing how loud I can make the speakers in the gym and… — Trevor Barton Copy Share Image
It's easy to get stuck in a rut when you're writing in one genre for too long. So, when you've been writing… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts. — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
I think science fiction and sound is a really interesting thing. You might as well think of it as sonic fiction. — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
“Hey, when you love a woman, and when she’s this crazy in love with you, you’ve got to do whatever she says,… — Arby Robbins Copy Share Image
“When I was small, I never wanted to step in puddles. Not because of any fear of drowned worms or wet stockings;… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“I don't know about you, but I find the idea of a school at night time - imagining the silent classrooms in… — Elizabeth Newton Copy Share Image
“It's amazing how once the mind is free of emotional pollution, logic and clarity emerge.” — Clyde Dsouza Copy Share Image
The once-science-fiction notion of hyper-connectivity - where we are all constantly connected to social networks and other bubbling streams of digital data… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
