'Alien' is a great movie. So is 'Close Encounters.' But I'm not the guy who goes out to the science-fiction festival. '2001's… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
“I am, like you, travelling along a road of absolute uncertainty and chaos. The only truth is that one day, we will… — M.E. Ellington Copy Share Image
“If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came… — Ursula K. Le Guina 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
“What might sound like science fiction elsewhere in the world at DARPA was future science.” — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different. — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Print science fiction writers often do consulting for government bodies. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I truly love science fiction; it's feeling you're something more than your present position in the world. — David Hewlett Copy Share Image
“US Constitution is unconstitutional.” – Circuit Judges Alfred T. Goodwin and Stephen Reinhardt, Federal Appeals Court, San Francisco, 2002 (overturned) “US Constitution… — Austin Dragon Copy Share Image
If you talk about genres - I don't care if you're talking about war, Westerns, science fiction, horror, fantasy, humor, romance -… — Michael Uslan Copy Share Image
When I was a young man in school, I used to read science fiction and really liked it. And as I became… — Douglas Trumbull Copy Share Image
We have people being a little uncomfortable in their life on Earth with finances and so on, so Science Fantasy or Science… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
I was a science fiction geek from an early age, enthralled by the questions of life in the universe. As I got… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“And tomorrow... what? Nobody knows. You understand? Neither I nor anyone else knows. It's unknown. You understand it's come to an end,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism. That's the… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“Tej seemed such a sunny personality, much of the time--these flashes of dark were like a crack in the sky, shocking and… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“Everything tends to become a satellite - even our brains may be said to be outside us now, floating around us in… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“Humanity’s first faster-than-light spacecraft crashed into Pluto and vaporised a significant portion of it. Oops. Pluto’s status as a planet had been… — L. G. Estrella Copy Share Image
One of the most poignant pieces of recent science fiction for me was the portrayal of the adults in the Pixar film… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
“As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science fiction readers, I am also,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“It is not for nothing that you are named Ransom,” said the Voice... The whole distinction between things accidental and things designed,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“...I don't believe in Him, and if He does exist, I don't like Him. His type of gods aren't gods who echo… — James Lovegrove Copy Share Image
“Science fiction, as a genre is fundamentally about ideas. It's about asking an impossible question, "What if...?" and building a story out… — Dave Robinson Copy Share Image
“In post-modern finance, everybody took a risk when lending or borrowing.” — B. Barmanbek 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
The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“He let out a short laugh. "You sound like Sherlock Holmes. You gonna pull out a magnifying glass? A pipe, maybe?” — James Dashner Copy Share Image
Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny. — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
“To be in a war, you must learn the rules of survival… to win a war, you must break every fucking one… — A.J. Vega Copy Share Image
I was a science fiction geek. That lets you know that they come in all sizes and styles, right? — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
“To completely understand me you must first accept that I am not you.” — Ross Caligiuri Copy Share Image
Despite what everyone thinks about science fiction, ultimately, at its best, it's about human beings with human emotions. — Greig Fraser Copy Share Image
“Stability,” insisted the Controller, “stability. The primal and the ultimate need. Stability. Hence all this.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“It's impossible to walk through solid rock... You have to walk between the molecules that make up the rock.” — J.M. Dattilo Copy Share Image
A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I mostly get bored by comedies, action movies, science fiction movies - they are so predictable. — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
Wrote a science fiction novel about a man who wins an argument with his wife, but it was rejected for being too… — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is. — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
