Many of the concepts we once thought belonged to speculation or science fiction are now part of our understood reality. — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I stoped reading science fiction once I saw that the UFO was real. It became science fact that just hasn't been proven… — Mike Bird Copy Share Image
I've always been a reader of science fiction, and I have loved a lot of feminist science fiction. — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the… — Bernard Werber Copy Share Image
“Listen: Common sense doesn't mean what it used to mean." -Matthias Chalmers, STAIRWAY2 HEAVEN” — Chaz Thompson Copy Share Image
“Michael Swan-wick’s Periodic Table of Science Fiction, short-shorts inspired by the periodic table of the elements.” — David G. Hartwell Copy Share Image
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“It was odd how that last deed caught the imagination of the world. All that Andrew had done before had not swayed… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
About the time you might start to think that science fiction - the real stuff, not the species of fantasy that goes… — Lois Tilton Copy Share Image
“Asleep you can experience many hours whilst only a few waking moments have passed. This is why dreams are an ideal platform… — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
“This time it was true death we heard - oblivion, void, the absolute - and the beauty of the experience was rooted… — Eugene Lim Copy Share Image
I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little critique group here in town and… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
In my world of the people who study war and defense issues, we simply did not talk about robotics. We do not… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I've got to take a bit of a break from science fiction. As much as I've loved this stuff, I'm ready for… — James Callis Copy Share Image
I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books,… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
“We both knew the place we were at and what that meant. We both felt the regret and the loss. We both… — Megan Duke Copy Share Image
I suppose that literature as it is won't die, science fiction included. But games are becoming an extremely important part of the… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
Science fiction, in its purest form, for me, it works the best when it's being used as metaphor to look at something… — Noah Wyle Copy Share Image
I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Although The Terminator is arguably the more visionary of the first two films, [Terminator 2] is the more visually and viscerally satisfying.… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
I realized that for fantasy and science fiction, especially from my youth, white was the default. Luke Skywalker was in the lead,… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
“I must warn you, my story isn’t a pretty one: abductions, time-traveling dragons, the Order of the Black Fez, highly verbal cats,… — Richard Due Copy Share Image
“Hi Clara. I thought you would need someone to walk with today, so here I am.” Sorin, her friend that lived in… — Paige Ray Copy Share Image
“Help!" he yelled and he lifted one leg, trying to run. But you can't outrun the membrane — he was soon gone.” — Carol Moreira Copy Share Image
“She prayed for that all through the night, uncertain to Whom or what, but with a feeling that almost resembled faith.” — Hillary Jordan Copy Share Image
Science fiction is one of the smartest genres around because you have to have so much forethought. — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
“Almost everything carried to its logical extreme becomes either depressing or carcinogenic.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Science fiction really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
“If you don't leave room for the unexpected to express itself in your life, you close yourself off from the possibility of… — Robert Stikmanz Copy Share Image
I would much rather watch a horror film or science fiction than a comedy. I don't know why. I just like them.… — Moon Bloodgood Copy Share Image
“When I wake I ask myself, how much longer before they will just let me die?" - Tier, Clutch” — J.A. Huss Copy Share Image
“Fred always goes with Daphne and Shaggy always sticks with Velma." "Well then, in that case, I'm Scooby.” — Peter Clines Copy Share Image
[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention. — Jack Williamson Copy Share Image
There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.' — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building. — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
“Memories tell me who I was, not who I’ll become. They don’t fix the present any more than they fix the past.” — Caroline George Copy Share Image