Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“In the space of a breath he had crossed the distance separating them and spun her around into a vise grip from… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
I tried to find something real in essentially something thats science fiction or something-for me, anyways-not having an experience like this. — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
“The Ancestral Trail was split into two-halves of 26 issues each. The first half takes place in the Ancestral World and describes… — Frank Graves Copy Share Image
“The finest SF comes to grips with life's mysteries, with our resentments against our own natures and our limited societies. It does… — George Zebrowski Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of hard science fiction, which is science fiction that is possible. — Sal Khan Copy Share Image
“It's--my God--like you stretched a tarp across a stadium to turn it into a giant tom-tom and crashed a 747 into it.” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“I felt like a character in a science fiction story, trapped in someone else's body, articulating someone else's words. To be frank,… — Philip Palmer Copy Share Image
“The Emperor, you see, protects... He protects mankind, through the Legions, through the Martial corps, through the war machines of the Mechanicum.… — Dan Abnett Copy Share Image
“Help!" he yelled and he lifted one leg, trying to run. But you can't outrun the membrane — he was soon gone.” — Carol Moreira Copy Share Image
I think we tried to make a film [Moon] that was about human beings as opposed to going from one special effects… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
Science fiction should not be dismissed as escapism. It is a profound vehicle for talking about social and political issues. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Having done, you know, science fiction, I didn't want to get trapped in science fiction. So my eclecticism was my only conscious… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
I probably spend more time writing than reading science fiction. I find that science-fiction literature is so reactive to all the literature… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
Regrettably, with '2001' having a title that had a year in it, science fiction essentially set itself up in the public's imagination… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Printing novel DNA might open the way to achievements once only conceivable in science fiction: designer bacteria that can produce new chemicals,… — Scott Gottlieb 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
“Since the war, we're the only intelligent species left in the universe, therefore we think everything in this universe has to conform… — Robert Buettner Copy Share Image
“I felt sure that [Oyarsa] was what we call "good," but I wasn't sure whether I liked "goodness" so much as I… — C S Lewis Copy Share Image
“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