In fantasy and science fiction, world-building is an essential part of the story. But as a reader, I don't just want descriptions… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
“It's impossible to walk through solid rock... You have to walk between the molecules that make up the rock.” — J.M. Dattilo Copy Share Image
Normal television limits what you can do. With science fiction, you can exercise your imagination more. I fell in love with it. — Gene Roddenberry 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
“By being unknowable, by resulting from events which, at the sub-atomic level, cannot be fully predicted, the future remains malleable, and retains… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“I think of myth and magic as the hieroglyphics of the human psyche. They are a special language that circumvents conscious thought… — Ripley Patton Copy Share Image
I'm not a moron, but science fiction to me requires a suspension of disbelief and honest curiosity or fascination in that kind… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
“With biting solemnity he spoke. “What are you holding on to as Mara? Why are you holding on to what does not… — Dew Platt Copy Share Image
“We all end up dying in the end. It’s just a question of how and when.” — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
The solutions like freezing zygotes, fertilized eggs, of all kinds of animals and so on, or keeping them in zoos and having… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile here I am- Earthborn woman, a mere barbaric maula, geting deeper into Imperial Space with each passing light second. I should… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
“My father and I used to watch a ton of old horror movies when I was growing up. ’The Creature from the… — Richard Finney Copy Share Image
[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“She waits for his reprimand or words of disapproval. He kisses her instead. Hard. Lips demanding, fingers tightening on her chin. He… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“In a thousand years, Fred, no one will even know or care we existed.” — David Marusek Copy Share Image
“Normally, I don't take to drinking so early in the morning, but I bend the rules when I get my ass kicked… — C.J. Fella Copy Share Image
“[I]n adult literary fiction, stories are there on sufferance. Other things are felt to be more important: technique, style, literary knowingness. Adult… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so… — Zoe Saldana 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
“Doubt is what keeps the heart and mind of every man alive. It 's what makes us think twice.” — Vasileios Kalampakas Copy Share Image
“The scientific (not to mention philosophical and metaphysical) implications are astounding. Let's say some of the atoms in your body originally formed… — Bob Berman Copy Share Image
“All is as if the world did cease to exist. The city's monuments go unseen, its past unheard, and its culture slowly… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
“We are monsters with good intentions, our instincts drive us but our passions devour us” — E.C. Lemus Copy Share Image