Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
There's a big difference between being numb to something and being immune to it. — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
“... we have created a man with not one brain but two. ... This new brain is intended to control the biological… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Essentially, you know, one of the great advantages of working in science fiction is it does give you an opportunity to talk… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
“Just in case you’re wondering,” Gage says, breaking the silence, “this alliance of ours doesn’t mean I like you.” “Feeling’s mutual.” Julian… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
As a kid, I didn't need to be convinced the future promised peril and oppression, so when I started thinking up the… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
There are similarities between historical novels and science fiction. Being thrown into the Napoleonic Wars is just as much of a different… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
For me, fantasy and speculative science fiction are the genres that feel closest to how I feel about being alive. Like, when… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
“We didn’t cause the apocalypse…” “But we were too dumb to see it,” she snaps. “That was our mistake.” — Caroline George Copy Share Image
“What will we be doing, when everything that can be done, can be done better by robots?” — Humberto Contreras Copy Share Image
“One thing I can guarantee, is that the world will never change itself because of our weaknesses. In fact, it has ways… — J.Z. Colby Copy Share Image
“That’s what you people do, isn’t it? Make assumptions and sell them to impressionable idiots.” — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive.... Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A good friend is someone who gets ya drunk and then walks ya home afterwards. — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
“Rachel Henson stood facing him, immaculate in her uniform and ready for duty as always. She looked as though she had spent… — Peter James West Copy Share Image
“Just because your electronics are better than ours, you aren't necessarily superior in any way. Look, imagine that you humans are a… — George Alec Effinger Copy Share Image
As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of… — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
“She thought he might have said her name, but it was background radiation accompanying the hum in her ears and the symphony… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeeth-century novels of exploration in fabulous lands. Therefore Jules Verne's story of travel… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the… — Faran Tahir Copy Share Image
“Yes, 1960’s North American sitcoms have led me to study the United States 1920’s and 1930’s crime bosses— QET Jenkins” — Kim Welsman Copy Share Image
