In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“What are you about?" said the vehicle as a panel popped open to reveal delicate components. "I am not accustomed to such… — Matthew Hughes Copy Share Image
“First of all, you're dead. Secondly, I cut off your head. Thirdly... yes, I know that rhymed, you really don't have to… — Gayle Ramage Copy Share Image
“The children guessed, if they did not whisper it, that all science fiction is an attempt to solve problems by pretending to… — Ray Bradbury 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
“A realist writer might break his protagonist's leg, or kill his fiancee; but a science fiction writer will immolate whole planets, and… — Adam Roberts Copy Share Image
I embrace technology and I just think that in 1984 when James Cameron wrote about the technology, everyone thought he was totally… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's hard for me to understand that people can believe in me, that they can trust that I'll be anything more… — Michael A. Martin & Andy Mangels Copy Share Image
“... But my voice is too soft. The wind picks up my words and swallows them whole.” — Hafsah Laziaf Copy Share Image
“JOH! Thank God I found you.” “I have 9022 gods listed in my database. Must I thank all of them?” — Maureen A. Miller Copy Share Image
“American cold war culture represented an age of anxiety. The anxiety was so severe that it sought relief in an insistent, assertive… — W. Scott Poole Copy Share Image
“Almsgiving is a major tenet of Islam. It's also a kick in the pants of the highest order. Nothing is as cool… — Lyda Morehouse Copy Share Image
“Dreams deny her the freedom she truly seeks. Darkness consumes. Leg muscles burn. She runs away, even while lost in the paradise… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“It suddenly occurred to me just how absurd this scene was: a guy wearing a suit of armor, standing next to an… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
“She stood by the bed and stroked her father's hand, knowing how desperately afraid he must feel at this moment. He'd always… — Hillary Jordan Copy Share Image
I often use detective elements in my books. I love detective novels. But I also think science fiction and detective stories are… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
I've loved science fiction my whole life. But I've never made a science fiction movie. — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
“You have to think if we've been visited by extraterrestrial life, it was like a zookeeper walking into the chimp enclosure: He… — J. Richard Singleton Copy Share Image
“There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.… — Philip Pullman 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
“Franz said 'Your picture, Viki, suggests that sense of breaking-up we feel in the modern world. Families, nations, classes, other loyalty groups… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
“In any case, this was a deep human prejudice. Human beings to find a central command in any organization. States had governments.… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image