The beauty of science fiction is its open canvas. You can hypothesize about any element of the world. It doesn't have to… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
“If a picture on the wall can remember, you remember that this is not the first time. If a picture on the… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“Though you can boil, extract, and refine living tissue to isolate the protein, carb, or fat, you do so only at the… — Catherine Shanahan Copy Share Image
“Archie wasn't waiting for her at the attic. She didn't consider that. He was probably giving her time to set and collect… — Perie Wolford Copy Share Image
“By and large, the kind of science fiction which makes tomorrow's headlines as near as this morning's coffee has enlarged popular awareness… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
“I see sarcastic and obscene visions of angels and demons flirting with the souls of men creating horror and deities in surreal… — E.C. Lemus Copy Share Image
I don't resent being identified with B science fiction movies at all -why should I? Even though they were not considered top… — John Agar Copy Share Image
“But I was not a domesticated animals...The dirt and grit of a city, the unending wakefulness of it, the crowdedness, the constant… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
My friend Ian Hagemann, a regular at Wiscon, once said on a panel that when he reads science fiction futures that are… — Nalo Hopkinson Copy Share Image
I've always found that when you're trying to create illusions with sound, especially in a science fiction or fantasy movie, that pulling… — Ben Burtt Copy Share Image
“Why would I what?” Will asked, wanting another bite of his burger. “Why would you risk your job teaching some stupid fantasy… — Amy Lane Copy Share Image
“Talent is everything. If you've got talent, nothing else matters. You can screw up your personal life something terrible. So what. If… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
'Knowing' is one of those movies where you're going to get the spectacle, and you're going to have the entertainment in the… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
I think I've actually benefited from Australia being a kind of combination of both British and American culture. We kind of got… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
Science fiction is fantasy about issues of science. Science fiction is a subset of fantasy. Fantasy predated it by several millennia. The… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
“Much of what I have done is left unfinished- not because I left it too soon, not because I was lazy, but… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Hence the uneasiness which they arouse in those who, for whatever reason, wish to keep us wholly imprisoned in the immediate conflict.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
“The purpose of a thought-experiment, as the term was used by Schrödinger and other physicists, is not to predict the future -… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“He takes two steps back. Closer to the portal. I can't stop myself. "Ben," I call. And I'm not even embarrassed about… — Elizabeth Norris Copy Share Image
Seventeen years after its intial release, The Empire Strikes Back is still as thrilling and involving as ever. Because of the high… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
“The winged human glanced towards Retina briefly. “It’s okay Dr. Blade. Scientists should never be blown away from the nature of facts.”… — Dew Platt Copy Share Image
“The mice were furious." [...] "Oh yes," said the old man mildly. "Yes well so I expect were the dogs and cats… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Science fiction and fantasy are very closely related genres, and a lot of people say that the genres are so close that… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
“My mother neither encouraged the reading of science fiction nor did she disparage it. She told me later that there was a… — Don Borchert Copy Share Image
Technically and logically speaking, actual Victorian science fiction writers cannot be dubbed 'steampunks.' Although they utilized many of the same tropes and… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“The Deepest Night* As we lay asleep within our suspended animation chambers - living coffins our thoughts chase each other as they… — David M. Green Copy Share Image
“Um… Eve…can I ask…?” “About what?” Eve was still frowning at the pasta like she suspected it to do something clever, like… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
“We inhabit, in ordinary daylight, a future that was unimaginably dark a few decades ago, when people found the end of the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Those things you dote on are no more human than the Neverborn in my flasks. They are golems of meat and muscle,… — Josh Reynolds Copy Share Image
I used to be a strong believer that we would eventually colonize the solar system the way it's been done in science… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Star Trek' is the McDonald's of science fiction; it's fast food storytelling. Every problem is like every other problem. They all get… — David Gerrold 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
A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Standing in front of the white picket fence, I stared at the multitude of champagne roses weaving their hunter green vines gracefully… — Leah Lozano Copy Share Image
A couple of hundred years from now, maybe [science fiction writers] Isaac Asimov and Fred Pohl will be considered the important philosophers… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
“So, in the end, above ground you must have the Haves, pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty, and below ground the Have-nots,… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“The most difficult speculation for a science fiction writer to undertake is to imagine correctly the *secondary* implications of a new factor.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I don't think any religion makes any sense and I think people who are into that are really getting duped, and I… — Howard Stern Copy Share Image
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