Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.' — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Carver's best book yet! FROM A CHANGELING STAR combines deft characterization and fascinating extrapolation into a complex, compulsively readable thriller. I wish… — Craig Shaw Gardner Copy Share Image
And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it.… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers aren't short of ideas. You can read a book, and it sets off a chain of thought processes, so… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at… — Carter Burwell Copy Share Image
A lot of people forget that the origin of science fiction in the U.S. was in the post-First World War period when… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“Gabrielle chuckled, her dark eyes twinkling. “So he’s been after you, has he? Poor Etta, pursued by a sun priest offering to… — Michelle O'Leary Copy Share Image
“Let them come. We’ve got helicopters, tanks, jets, and big guns. We’ve got armies of robots. What do they have but their… — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
It's interesting how many science fiction writers get going when they are very young. I was on a program with Greg Bear… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
With Rodham, for instance, it has to work on an emotional level. It has to work on a character level. If it's… — James Ponsoldt Copy Share Image
“I know, i know. You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was younger I… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall into the 'historic fiction' category.… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“© Carlyle Labuschagne 2014 " As I watched her run down the path and melt with the shadows, I wasn't sure how… — Carlyle Labuschagne Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a weird category, because it's the only area of fiction I can think of where the story is not… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
“A face stared up at her from the mirror beside her hand. Was that really what she looked like? Was that really… — P.C. Hodgell Copy Share Image
“The ceiling shattered, and the vacuum created yanked her into the air. Her face grazed a shard of the ceiling as it… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
I'm not a moron, but science fiction to me requires a suspension of disbelief and honest curiosity or fascination in that kind… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
“The most amazing mechanism in the known universe is the human brain; it takes in information all the time then uses it,… — Amanda Dubin Copy Share Image
When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an optimistic genre.… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer… — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
“I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the… — Rutger Hauer Copy Share Image
“He argued that science fiction, which once celebrated the future, has turned dystopian because people no longer have an optimistic view of… — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“On a world where a common table implement is a little device with which you crack the ice that has formed on… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It's just science fiction so it's allowed to be silly, and childish, and stupid. It's just science fiction, so it doesn't have… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Our world must be hell, then. It must be the hell of some other place where all of us committed atrocious sins… — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
I've always liked science fiction as a way of commenting on ourselves and it's wrong that it is seen as less valid… — Richard Herring Copy Share Image
“Yes, she loved her ship more than she had loved him. But what she loved even more was what it gave her:… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to do a project with space imagery because I've always loved these amazing sci-fi electro book covers. I've always… — Robert Coppola Schwartzman Copy Share Image
Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“Asleep you can experience many hours whilst only a few waking moments have passed. This is why dreams are an ideal platform… — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
“It was odd how that last deed caught the imagination of the world. All that Andrew had done before had not swayed… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
About the time you might start to think that science fiction - the real stuff, not the species of fantasy that goes… — Lois Tilton Copy Share Image
My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature -… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of… — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
“History doesn’t start with a tall building and a card with your name written on it, but jokes do. I think someone… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
Since I was really little, I've just always had an obsession with, not just science fiction, but science and space. And also… — Moby Copy Share Image
I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little critique group here in town and… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
“This time it was true death we heard - oblivion, void, the absolute - and the beauty of the experience was rooted… — Eugene Lim Copy Share Image
We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science. — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
