It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science-it's a lot more fun, and no more likely to be… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“We shall give up the things of childhood -- gods and demons, planets and suns, guilts and regrets.” — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
“Lately I have come to believe that the principle difference between Heaven and Hell is the company you keep there…” — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean.” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Life is funny that way. Sometimes the dumbest thing you do turns out to be the smartest.” — Robyn Mundell Copy Share Image
“With him I couldn’t be anything but myself and that scared the crap out of me, because I had never existed like… — Carlyle Labuschagne Copy Share Image
Science fiction should not be dismissed as escapism. It is a profound vehicle for talking about social and political issues. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“Howling duststorms of nuclear ashes. Human and animal bone powder. Flakes and fragments of the destroyed world. Filthy tempests of death. I… — C.J. Anderson Copy Share Image
I think Douglas [Douglas Adams] was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real… — Lalla Ward Copy Share Image
“You’re covered in blood again.” “I really am.” “Why are you always covered in blood when I wake up after being unconscious?”… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
“Other science fiction shows had science advisers and consultants," Hanson pointed out. "It's science fiction, " Weinstein said. "The second part of… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
I took a great joy with inventing new kinds of mechanisms. I invented new kinds of machines. I've been a student of… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
“But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction. If… — David Eddings 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
War has always been a part of science fiction. Even before the birth of SF as a standalone genre in 1926, speculative… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
[Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
“Our late modern world prides itself on recognising, for the first time in history, the basic equality of all humans, yet it… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Regrettably, with '2001' having a title that had a year in it, science fiction essentially set itself up in the public's imagination… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
“The Linux world behaves in many respects like a free market or an ecology, a collection of selfish agents attempting to maximize… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
In a sense, fantasy is a freer play of the imagination. You can achieve exactly the situation you want with less groundwork,… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy, I've always written horror stories and monster… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Sergeant Tin said it would be easier to just call you Corporal. She said you go back and forth, promoted one day… — Henry V. O'Neil Copy Share Image
“I focus all my energy into become a faster, stronger, and better version of myself.” — Georgia Clark Copy Share Image
I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
“Every dead body that is not exterminated, gets up and kills. The people it kills, get up and kill!” — Dr. James Foster Copy Share Image
I was really interested in doing a really science fiction-based story because it's something I feel like I hadn't done yet. — Lindsey Morgan Copy Share Image
The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do. — Lindsay Wagner Copy Share Image
I have this theory about science fiction movies in that, when the space race sort of died, a lot of people sort… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
“Never mess with the Fez.” —Heather Peaceout, Black Fez, Second Order” — Richard Due Copy Share Image
“... You have to pull the feet to break the neck. They let the loved ones do it.” — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
Most fiction says you may or may not be alive tomorrow; science fiction talks often about the future. — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible. — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself "well, that's not… — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
“To everyone who thinks writing a sequel should be easy because you've already clreated the universe: Bwa ha ha ha ha ha… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction. — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
![“I think Douglas [Douglas Adams] was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that he could make science fiction work as well as it did. And just such fun to have around, he was just such a lovely man.” quote by Lalla Ward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d39/lalla-ward-33910_clever_i-think-douglas-douglas-adams-was-a-real_996442.jpg)
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