“The twentieth century was the Science Fiction Century. Science fiction affected everything, and we now live in a science fiction world.” — Charles N. Brown Copy Share Image
One of the standard story-generating engines for science fiction is to take something we normally think of as metaphoric and treat it… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
As far as I know, there's nothing more dangerous than a man who doesn't care if he lives or dies. — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
“Be patient with him. If the same quality did not exist in you, you wouldn’t notice it in him.” — Robyn Mundell Copy Share Image
The decline in American pride, patriotism, and piety can be directly attributed to the extensive reading of so-called 'science fiction' by our… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
I was writing novels at eight. It was a science fiction epic, which went by the unimprovable title of 'Another Kind of… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrote children's stories. She was polite about the science fiction and fantasy that… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain. — Julian May Copy Share Image
“It was like staring into the face of a familiar stranger. You know, that person you see in a crowd and swear… — P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast Copy Share Image
“In reading Western science fiction, Chinese readers discover the fears and hopes of Man, the modern Prometheus, for his destiny, which is… — Xia Jia Copy Share Image
Science fiction doesn’t try to predict the future, but rather offers a significant distortion of the present…We sit around and look at… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“[T]he new weird represents a productive experiment in fantasy fiction. The New Wave of the 1960s and 1970s arguably embodied science fiction's… — Darja Malcolm-Clarke Copy Share Image
“Red, orange and green geometric designs painted its body as well as the flimsy collar around its neck. The creature flicked its… — Marcha A. Fox Copy Share Image
My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world. — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
Scientists are embarrassed by science fiction; they want to distance themselves as much as possible. ... I think there's nothing to be… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
There are many other writers whose work I admire tremendously, but none whose work struck me at just the right young age.… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Lots of ways to help people. Sometimes heal patients; sometimes execute dangerous people. Either way helps” — Mordin Solus Copy Share Image
“I feel like the Earth has cracked open and swallowed me into a bottomless abyss.” — March Lions Copy Share Image
“All brightness was gone, leaving nothing. We stepped out of the tent onto nothing. Sledge and tent were there, Estraven stood beside… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Humans have been doin’ awful things to each other throughout history. Humanity’s not as great as you make it out to be.… — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
“Good luck with the aliens, and if we survive this feel free to look me up on your next vacation.” “Good luck… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
“She was afraid of not being able to pull herself out of the dream world, never waking up, never knowing what really… — B. Barmanbek Copy Share Image
