Labels like 'Chinese Science Fiction' or 'Western Science Fiction' summarize a vast field of work, all of which are diverse and driven… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“The principle of analogy is so simple, so natural, that everyone uses it in daily life. Imagine someone sitting down in front… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
“You hunt and catch your own food. Am I correct?" "We are fierce predators of the night," DeChevue said proudly. Edwin tried… — Patrick E. McLean Copy Share Image
“Take a scientific fact or theory, add a futuristic or other-worldly setting, stir in an imaginative plot and fascinating characters, and a… — Yvonne Coleman Copy Share Image
Science fiction does not attempt to predict. It extrapolates. It just says, "What if?" not what will be? Because you can never… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“...[T]he only means I have to stop ignorant snobs from behaving towards genre fiction with snobbish ignorance is to not reinforce their… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The appeal of science fiction has always been its iconoclasm . . . But in order to be an iconoclast, an author… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
“Let’s get to know each other. My name’s William, William More, but you can call me Willy. I’m an engineer-chemist who graduated… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
“We will be one step down from the Creator," she said, her olive-hued face tightening into an expression that she considered dramatic.… — Walter Mosley 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 sing about UFOs and extraterrestrials, and so I designed a UFO fashion. It includes science-fiction bikinis and Bermuda Triangle shorts. — Nina Hagen Copy Share Image
“It gets kind of zen after awhile, life is a journey, time is a river, the door is ajar.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Every Sunday, the Weavers drove their Oldsmobile east toward Waterloo and pulled into the gravel parking lot of the Cedarloo Baptist Church,… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“Alexis, please mind your mouth. Cursing in Russian is still cursing.” — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
America is a nation of liars, and for that reason science fiction has a special claim to be our national literature, as… — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
There are loads of sociopolitical, racial, class and future-planet situations that really interest me, but I'm not really interested in making a… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
We have a lot of suspicion of robots in the West. But if you look cross-culturally, that isn't true. In Japan, in… — Cynthia Breazeal Copy Share Image
I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic. — Dan Aykroyd Copy Share Image
“The only social change presented by most SF has been towards authoritarianism, the domination of ignorant masses by a powerful elite—sometimes presented… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
As a science fiction fan, the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award mean a lot to me. — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“Yesterday, I asked a robot, Gumball I think, do you know Murphy’s law of gravitation? It answered, ‘No, sir, I know only… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
