“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
“A layer of fine powder coats his skin. “My lungs are turning to concrete,” Rob wheezes, hacking and spitting. “So are my… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
The brain, knowing that a person can't live forever in this world, rationalizes a future, or other-dimensional, world in which immortality is… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
For one thing, you have the opportunity in science fiction shows to do things with stories - address issues and ideas -… — Tim Russ Copy Share Image
“Richard paused again. Bert hated that pause; he knew it all too well from his meetings with the town selectmen. Bureaucrats implemented… — Kris Ashton Copy Share Image
“Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“underwater cities, and robot personal assistants. From the 1930s on, science fiction pulp magazines and comic books promised us that by the… — James Kakalios Copy Share Image
Hard science fiction, which is what I write, often is rightly criticized for having either negligible or unbelievable characterization, but the science… — Robert J. Sawyer 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
“I’m sorry,” he says. No two words were ever truer. Still, she says nothing. Once a shield, now her taciturnity is brandished… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“On January 24th, Apple computers will introduce Macintosh. And you’ll see why 1984 won’t be like 1984.” – Old Hollywood film director… — Austin Dragon Copy Share Image
I was born in California, raised a vegetarian, and love science fiction, so don't tell me how I need to be in… — Aisha Tyler Copy Share Image
The films that I loved growing up were the science fiction films from the late seventies and early eighties [films], which were… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
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I've actually usually been wary of taking on science fiction as an actor because it's really tough to do. It's really difficult… — Grant Bowler Copy Share Image
I am playing in a playground that's already been played in. I am always aware that a lot of the furniture in… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
America is a nation of liars, and for that reason science fiction has a special claim to be our national literature, as… — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
You cannot hide from the world. It will find you. It always does. And now it has found me. My split second… — Drew Magary Copy Share Image
“I will die. You will die. We will all die and the universe will carry on without care. All that we have… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
Most people have made this mistake of thinking Middle-earth is a particular kind of earth or is another planet of the science… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“She leaves my side and heads deeper into the apartment singing, “—if the spirit tries to hide, its temple far away… a… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
For reasons probably related to the popular vision of Albert Einstein and, also, the threat posed by black holes in comic books… — Rainer Weiss 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
“A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
When I did 'Battlestar Galactica' it was the first time I really understood science fiction. That was a very political drama, but… — Michelle Forbes Copy Share Image
“To love was a privilege not afforded to those of us born in these trying times when survival was never guaranteed. We… — Molly X. Chang Copy Share Image
I would say I'm an ironist not a satirist. All you do is you take existing tendencies and crank them up, just… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Whatever science fiction movies we watch now, we can make the technology real in two days. What we can do is not… — Pranav Mistry Copy Share Image
Labels like 'Chinese Science Fiction' or 'Western Science Fiction' summarize a vast field of work, all of which are diverse and driven… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Many science fiction writers are literary autodidacts who focus on the genre primarily as a literature of ideas rather than as a… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
That's cool your dutghaer likes to write. My dutghaer wants to be a scientist. She likes to read when she finds books… — Nany Copy Share Image
The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
I've always believed in the power of rational thinking and behavior as the savior of the world, and science fiction as a… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
“Science fiction is the one literature that deals with today's reality - that provides a basis for discussion and understanding of the… — Biggle Copy Share Image
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