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Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Traditionally, the science fiction reader has been the 16- to 24-year-old male, especially the male with an interest in technology. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Science fiction can be exciting and very gripping, but it doesn't tell us anything about the universe in which we live. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
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I happen to be one of those rare actors that actually loves very intelligent and well-acted science fiction. — Richard Hatch Copy Share Image
“Colonel Graff: We won! That's all that matters. Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I'm not a futurist, and my taste in science fiction was sort of in the gothic horror vein, not space movies and… — Robert Picardo Copy Share Image
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The brain, knowing that a person can't live forever in this world, rationalizes a future, or other-dimensional, world in which immortality is… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
“A layer of fine powder coats his skin. “My lungs are turning to concrete,” Rob wheezes, hacking and spitting. “So are my… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
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You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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While I prefer generally more personal dramas in which I can stretch myself... and while I'm not a science fiction buff, I… — Yvette Mimieux Copy Share Image
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“Arkady looked at the other man. he felt that he was actually seeing him as a physical being for the first time…He… — Chris Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Oh! What a miserable night I passed! The cold stars shone in mockery, and the bare trees waved their branches above me;… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 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
“He could see the tall, peeling yellow building at the periphery of his range of vision. But something about it struck him… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
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