I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars… — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
One of the strangest features of string theory is that it requires more than the three spatial dimensions that we see directly… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
“Here lies the body of Colonel Cornell’s. The rest of the fellow, I fancy, in hell is.” — Mark Hodder Copy Share Image
[A] science fiction story is one which presupposes a technology, or an effect of technology, or a disturbance in the natural order,… — Edmund Crispin Copy Share Image
I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think,… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
“聪明一世,糊涂一时. Intelligent and cautious for a lifetime, it takes a second of stupidity to unravel it all.” — Molly X. Chang Copy Share Image
“We’re not searching for anything except people. We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
We live on a minute island of known things. Our undiminished wonder at the mystery which surrounds us is what makes us… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
I'm always a little bit cautious around invented terminology because so much science fiction is off-putting to the uninitiated. You open up… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Orcs do not have enemies.” Monde tried to search for the proper term, “We have…adversaries.” “Isn’t that the same thing?” “Depends on… — Sabrina Zbasnik Copy Share Image
“Well, for one, you walk around like you’re so much better than everyone else. We’re all a bunch of soulless animals or… — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
There's always someone kicking guns. We wanted ["Badlands"] to be a world without guns and bullets, where martial arts was the form… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as being particulary a subversive writer, but I like to think that my work could afford someone… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I ended up working on "Chicago Hope" and other things, but always with the idea that, eventually, I would want to take… — Remi Aubuchon Copy Share Image
Who are we?' And to me that's the essential question that's always been in science fiction. A lot of science fiction stories… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
Science fiction is not quirky anymore; we live in a futuristic world now. — Bonnie Hammer Copy Share Image
“What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer…from a thousand questions?” — G. F. Smith Copy Share Image
If there’s a zeppelin, it’s alternate history. If there’s a rocketship, it’s science fiction. If there are swords and/or horses, it’s fantasy.… — Debra Doyle Copy Share Image
“One way to think about your life is as an extended free fall. An epiphany may help you see better as you… — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
“You people do not have to live like this!" the man pleaded. "We are humans, made in the image of God. No… — Donald Allen Kirch Copy Share Image
“That was another thing people used to be able to do, which they can't do anymore: enjoy in their heads events which… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
To put it in a nutshell, the Central and South American high cultures of antiquity were entirely worthy of comparison with what… — Joseph Needham Copy Share Image
The stories about epidemics that are told in the American press - their plots and tropes - date to the nineteen-twenties, when… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image