“Vashti was seized with the terrors of direct experience. She shrank back into the room, and the wall closed up again.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“There are limits to human beings and science, and fiction is one way to expose those limits. --Ono Norihiro” — Patrick W. Galbraith Copy Share Image
I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer. — China Mieville Copy Share Image
I love fairytales. I like fantasy a lot, science fiction, I like magic. I like to create magic. I love magic. — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
“Time keeps ticking away, unaware of the suffering each second generates. Time doesn’t care, because if it did, it would’ve reversed.” — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
A good friend is someone who gets ya drunk and then walks ya home afterwards. — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
Whatever science fiction movies we watch now, we can make the technology real in two days. What we can do is not… — Pranav Mistry Copy Share Image
I would say I'm an ironist not a satirist. All you do is you take existing tendencies and crank them up, just… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an optimistic genre.… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
I'm not a moron, but science fiction to me requires a suspension of disbelief and honest curiosity or fascination in that kind… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
“Let them come. We’ve got helicopters, tanks, jets, and big guns. We’ve got armies of robots. What do they have but their… — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
“The most amazing mechanism in the known universe is the human brain; it takes in information all the time then uses it,… — Amanda Dubin Copy Share Image
A lot of people forget that the origin of science fiction in the U.S. was in the post-First World War period when… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“Gabrielle chuckled, her dark eyes twinkling. “So he’s been after you, has he? Poor Etta, pursued by a sun priest offering to… — Michelle O'Leary Copy Share Image
'Filk' is the folk music of the science fiction and fantasy community - you get parodies, you get traditional music that's had… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
Science fiction that's just about people wandering around in space ships shooting each other with ray guns is very dull. I like… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“He drank, for the same reason he wrote second-rate science fiction. Not to forget but to remember, to open the past and… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
“Dreams deny her the freedom she truly seeks. Darkness consumes. Leg muscles burn. She runs away, even while lost in the paradise… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“That was another thing people used to be able to do, which they can't do anymore: enjoy in their heads events which… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“If patterns of ones and zeroes were "like" patterns of human lives and deaths, if everything about an individual could be represented… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
I love outsider stories. And I also like a lot of genre fiction, too. So I wanted to write a literary book… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
“You’re insane.” “It’ll work.” “Which does not alter the fact that you are insane.” — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
For me, a kitchen is like science fiction. I only go there to open the refrigerator and take something out. — Ann-Margret Copy Share Image
“Step up to red alert." Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb." - Rimmer & Kryten, "Red Dwarf” — Rob Grant; Grant Naylor Copy Share Image
Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define… — Tom Shippey Copy Share Image
Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain. — Julian May Copy Share Image
“I hope I died honorably. I have a great deal to atone for. - Eler Nersal” — Lynda Williams Copy Share Image
Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Battlestar' could sound like whatever I wanted it to sound like, because in the science fiction environment, there are no rules. — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
Well I don't think of myself as like a horror or science fiction filmmaker. I just think of myself as a filmmaker. — Panos Cosmatos Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it. — Ivan Reitman Copy Share Image
“Funny story. A bunch of people -- the cult -- blame the appearance of abilities on the invention of the internet.” — Alex Lane Copy Share Image
I was always fascinated by science-fiction shows, shows like 'Star Trek' and 'Lost in Space.' — Michael P. Anderson Copy Share Image
And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction. — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
“I am constantly amazed by how much stranger science is than science fiction” — Marcus Chown Copy Share Image
Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible. — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
I love thrillers. I would even read certain science fiction, although I haven't been a devotee for many years. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
