What I love about the 'Alien' franchise is I would do all kinds of films - dramas, comedies, whatever - and every… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
“No, Sarah. There's more. There's always more. I won't give you up. I won't! It's not just a game. Midgard is real… — Brandon R. Chinn Copy Share Image
Science-fiction fans are the most loyal fans in the world. It's true. They'll watch things that you actually should give them their… — Katee Sackhoff Copy Share Image
Boys do not evaluate a book. They divide books into categories. There are sexy books, war books, westerns, travel books, science fiction.… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“I know that I am going to meet a personal variation on reality; a partial view of reality. But I know also… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
As a senior editor at Tor Books and the manager of our science fiction and fantasy line, I rarely blog to promote… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
“I was his heartbeat. I was his fucking universe. Now I was, but soon I wouldn't be. I would miss that, miss… — Lisa Henry Copy Share Image
“When asked to "define the difference between fantasy and science fiction," I mouth and mumble and always end up talking about the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The final frontier is just… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women. — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think Earth has got to be the insane asylum of the universe. . . and I'm here by computer error.… — Forrest J. Ackerman Copy Share Image
The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
You can lose a reader in a blink of an eye. If a person is an engineer or chemist or an anthropologist… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
I find that in the science fiction world, you have almost more women fans than male fans and I think it's because… — Katee Sackhoff Copy Share Image
Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science. — Walter Jon Williams 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
People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“Cale! Have you had a female in here?” Calic laughed carelessly. “Depends on when you're referring to.” — Kiersten Fay Copy Share Image
Science fiction was one of those places, particularly during the McCarthy era, where you could write whatever you wanted because it was… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
It's horrid to be called a Shakespearean actor because that's incredibly limiting, and we love acting. We like telling stories; anything that… — Timothy Dalton Copy Share Image
Star Trek wouldn't die. There were a whole lot of young people who were touched by the thought process of science fiction.… — Gary Lockwood Copy Share Image