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Mining asteroids is a well-oiled trope of science-fiction. But someday, actually doing it will make economic sense. Many of the essential metals… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“My dear sir, that is just where you are wrong. That is just where the whole world has gone wrong. We are… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
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My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
For the moment, machines able to 'think' in anything approaching a human sense remain science-fiction. How we should prepare for their potential… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
“I believe you to be Filidor Vesh," said the dwarf. "You are entitled to your beliefs, however ill-founded," Filidor replied. "No doubt… — Matthew Hughes Copy Share Image
The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has… — Terry Pratchett 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
I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Ribofunk indicates a focus on biology as the upcoming big science in the way that physics was for the last 50 or… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist and one of the leaders of the American… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Brea watched the other Jaren, the Jaren she wasn't sure she wanted to know, slip through the cracks of his face. He… — Daniel Pike Copy Share Image
“Expect an army of Vigil drones, nearly as a many Praesidis guards, a Machim ground detachment of super-soldiers and at least one… — G.S. Jennsen 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 vividly remember my first 'Superman' comic, which my granddad bought me when I was about 7. From that point on, all… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
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“Do not stare directly into his eyes!” she warned, in an accent I couldn’t place. “Why not?” I said, but she was… — Richard Due Copy Share Image
Peter Watts has taken the core myths of the First Contact story and shaken them to pieces. The result is a shocking… — Karl Schroeder Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to be human. I want to see gamma rays, I want to hear X-rays, and I want to smell… — Patrick Di Justo Copy Share Image
“The second jet, however, brought the promise of a third and a fourth. Here was a pattern. Jets are falling out of… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
To me, the amazing thing is that so much that was science fiction back then, political fiction, today is reality. We have… — George Takei Copy Share Image
“Yeye shifted in her seat as Roma stared down at her angrily. “There are inter-realm laws I must abide by, that the… — Dew Platt Copy Share Image
If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
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We are living in a science-fiction nightmare where children are gasping for breath on bad-air days because somebody gave money to a… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
Science fiction fans are the smartest fans in television. They just are. They're just so smart, and they know so much detail… — Azita Ghanizada Copy Share Image
A favorite science fiction writer of mine is William Faulkner! It was an idea that came to me once, years ago, and… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
I think that prog rock is the science fiction of music. Science fiction speculates on what the future might be and look… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Blindsight is excellent. It's state-of-the-art science fiction: smart, dark and it grabs you by the throat from page one. Like a C… — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
“Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. Rapid intercourse, from… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“We owe our liberation to chemistry," he went on. "For all perception is but a change in the concentration of hydrogen ions… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
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I don't think it's good when entertainment tries to proselytize and I don't think people ultimately want someone showing up in their… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
“Science fiction long assimilated the notion that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic (much to its benefit), while fantasy long… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
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