“Well, don't stand about like that, man; if you're no use you're certainly no ornament. Bring that in and tell me what… — Stephen Baxter 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 spent my youth reading books in which corporations became governments, it's an old idea in science fiction. — Hank Green Copy Share Image
The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Science fiction is about worlds you don't know and worlds you can create, like in 'Avatar'. — Paul Verhoeven Copy Share Image
“And she laughed, a full octave, descending from high C like chimes.” — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
“Cam shook his head. 'Do you ever listen to how much crazy shit comes out of your mouth?' 'Nope.' I hooked my… — Lisa Henry Copy Share Image
“The state exists for man,not man for the state.The same may be said ofscience. These are old phrases,coined by people who saw… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think what I love about science fiction and what sci-fi can be really good at is obviously you're working with outlandish… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
“A joke is a witticism or play on words that’s meant to be funny. I say ‘meant to be’ because most jokes… — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
“Because of an imaginary voice, Nicholas had become a whole person; rather than the partial person he had been in Berkeley. If… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“They sit in their soundproof rooms and issue tone-deaf edicts and call themselves controlling the world. And one day they ask you… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
“Landon drops the bloody knife and stares at Summer like he doesn’t even know her anymore. The truth is, she’ll never be… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
Sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical. I'm more interested in… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
“Tej seemed such a sunny personality, much of the time--these flashes of dark were like a crack in the sky, shocking and… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
A leader's first duty is to look after his or her people, especially those who are sick, hungry, or thirsty. — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
“I had been hobbled, perhaps even crippled by a pervasive internet society I had come to depend on and take for granted...… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene is a classic example of science fiction. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Technology won’t protect you from being attacked for fresh water. A badass blade will. Back in Eden where I grew up, the… — Georgia Clark Copy Share Image
I think the best science fiction, especially literature, is political in nature and is often an allegory about something problematic in our… — Simon Kinberg Copy Share Image
I had a list of things that science fiction, particularly American science fiction, to me seemed to do with tedious regularity. One… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
A lot of the science fiction that I grew up reading was written when we still thought that Venus might be an… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
