“I searched my mind for the right visualization. I knew it had to start with what I put in my head. That… — Tina M. Randolph Copy Share Image
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“Night and day, wind and storm, tide and earthquake, impeded man no longer. He had harnessed Leviathan. All the old literature, with… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“That’s a stupid name! Whirly-gig is much better, I think. Who in their right mind would point at this thing and say,… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
It's kind of a misnomer about science fiction that science fiction is about anything other than people. It's about people doing stuff,… — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
“I don't know if you've ever been covered head to toe in prickle bush, but let me tell you, it's not a… — Elizabeth Newton Copy Share Image
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In effect, I grew up in a sort of timewarp, a place where times are scrambled up. There are elements of my… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
When I was little, I guess I was just an ordinary kid. But then things changed when I was in junior high.… — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
As both an essayist and science fiction and fantasy novelist, I write about and for the future. I talk about the past… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
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"Hard" science fiction probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reconstructs… — Jack Williamson Copy Share Image
As a kid, I didn't need to be convinced the future promised peril and oppression, so when I started thinking up the… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The final frontier is just… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
They've also asked me now to start on another series that we're gonna do after this Frontier Earth. But it's not science… — Bruce Boxleitner Copy Share Image
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We have 'Doctor Who' references on 'Futurama,' but we have a lot of science fiction references that I don't get; but in… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
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Within a science fictional space, memory and regret are, when taken together, the set of necessary and sufficient elements required to produce… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
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“Xenology is an unnatural mixture of science fiction and formal logic. At its core is a flawed assumption—that an alien race would… — Arkady Strugatsky Copy Share Image
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When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“Daniel, I was asked of a budding author, how do you know if your story is on track? My answer: I start… — Daniel LaMonte Copy Share Image
In the century-long history of Chinese science fiction, apocalyptic themes were mostly absent. This was especially true in the period before the… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
Fantasy is fantasy. It's fiction. It's not meant to be a textbook. I don't believe in letting research overwhelm the fiction. That's… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'm a big genre fan. I'm a big science fiction nerd and horror film nerd. I'm obsessed with Pam Grier. I wanted… — Alex Stapleton Copy Share Image
One of the things that science fiction gets to do is thought experiments about the human condition that would be impractical or… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Anything that has to do with noir and space, I'm gonna love. When you've got a noir-ish, pulpy detective in a science… — Thomas Jane Copy Share Image
The first science fiction show on television was 'Tales Of Tomorrow' using scripts from the radio show 'X-1' which used stories from… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
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