“That's all science fiction was ever about. Hating the way things are, wanting to make things different.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“But eggshells were made to be broken, and slamming into a 100-story skyscraper at the speed of light would likely do the… — Maureen A. Miller Copy Share Image
“The great thing about growing up with science fiction is that you have an interest in everything.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror. — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe. — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“People can always say I don't look impressive enough, but they can't argue over how strong I am once I punch them… — F.C. Yee Copy Share Image
Many science fiction writers are literary autodidacts who focus on the genre primarily as a literature of ideas rather than as a… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
That's cool your dutghaer likes to write. My dutghaer wants to be a scientist. She likes to read when she finds books… — Nany Copy Share Image
The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
“Science fiction is the one literature that deals with today's reality - that provides a basis for discussion and understanding of the… — Biggle Copy Share Image
I've always believed in the power of rational thinking and behavior as the savior of the world, and science fiction as a… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
Labels like 'Chinese Science Fiction' or 'Western Science Fiction' summarize a vast field of work, all of which are diverse and driven… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
When I did 'Battlestar Galactica' it was the first time I really understood science fiction. That was a very political drama, but… — Michelle Forbes Copy Share Image
“To love was a privilege not afforded to those of us born in these trying times when survival was never guaranteed. We… — Molly X. Chang Copy Share Image
“But just as we can all agree on what is red, even if we will never know if we each see it… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“True. And there are an infinite number of universes, of course, in which we don't exist at all - that is, no… — Fredric Brown Copy Share Image
“Fantastic accomplishments seem like something unattainable and everyone doing the extraordinary seems to be unlike you until YOU do something amazing. Then… — Sally Ember Copy Share Image
“In any case, this was a deep human prejudice. Human beings to find a central command in any organization. States had governments.… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
What I love about the 'Alien' franchise is I would do all kinds of films - dramas, comedies, whatever - and every… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
“Science fiction is a literature that belongs to all humankind. It portrays events of interest to all of humanity, and thus science… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“When I see your scars, do I want to erase them? Absolutely. But not your physical scars. The real ones, beneath the… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
He'd met other prodigies in mathematical competitions. In fact he'd been thoroughly trounced by competitors who probably spent literally all day practising… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Starring in a science fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction. — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
“If you feel like you don't fit into the world you inherited it is because you were born to help create a… — Ross Caligiuri Copy Share Image
“He could argue a case for anything, but that doesn’t change the fact he’s wrong most of the time.” — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
“That's how we should celebrate all birthdays... with an ass-kicking.” — Mord McGhee Copy Share Image
“I’ve come to accept the voices in my head… I just wish they didn’t spit when they talk.” — Gibson Michaels Copy Share Image
I did a lot of science fiction, and I've done a number of post-apocalyptic science fiction environments. — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden. — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
In science fiction a fantastic event or development is considered rationally. — James Gunn Copy Share Image
“There was no sign of any life, just erratic hints of a faded sun peeking down with sorrow on the dead world… — C.J. Anderson Copy Share Image
Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy. — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
Science fiction shows are traditionally about the gimmick or the gadget and tend to be emotionally cool to the touch. — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
“Any beginning is also an ending, you know. You can’t have just the one.” — Suzette Haden Elgin Copy Share Image
The comedy and character interaction on 'Atlantis' is what makes it so different from most science fiction shows. — David Hewlett Copy Share Image
“A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Deckard.” — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
My mother was a part of a reading group, but they would never come near science fiction because they think it's not… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers. — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image