“Beef had hit $300 a kilo. Not that he could recall the last time he’d tasted real beef.” — Barry Kirwan Copy Share Image
“Despite what your science fiction writers dream, we simply don't have the technology” — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
In high school and college, I started to read more and write science fiction myself. I was fully engaged in writing in… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
I love the fact that it's not only about Star Trek, but about science fiction in general, and science. — Rene Auberjonois Copy Share Image
“Now, this was a combination that she wouldn’t dare to dream of, even in her worst nightmare.” — B. Barmanbek Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet. — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
“That was a double negative, Jemail. By saying that you haven’t seen nobody, you’re actually saying that you have seen somebody.” — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at… — Carter Burwell Copy Share Image
I've actually usually been wary of taking on science fiction as an actor because it's really tough to do. It's really difficult… — Grant Bowler Copy Share Image
I am playing in a playground that's already been played in. I am always aware that a lot of the furniture in… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Richard paused again. Bert hated that pause; he knew it all too well from his meetings with the town selectmen. Bureaucrats implemented… — Kris Ashton Copy Share Image
“It reminded him of a science fiction novel that he'd read once; in it, the characters had a tendency to say ominously… — Ais Copy Share Image
“Howl howl gargle howl gargle howl howl howl gargle howl gargle howl howl gargle gargle howl gargle gargle gargle howl slurrp uuuurgh… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
For one thing, you have the opportunity in science fiction shows to do things with stories - address issues and ideas -… — Tim Russ Copy Share Image
“My father and I used to watch a ton of old horror movies when I was growing up. ’The Creature from the… — Richard Finney Copy Share Image
One of the dangers of science fiction, particularly bad science fiction, is that you have these scenes where the characters turn to… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Inevitably, his vision verged toward the fantastic; he published a scattering of stories - most included in this volume - which appeared… — Barry N. Malzberg Copy Share Image
“Complete. What an awful word for an infected people, that final, animal stage that was the future of all of them. Chels… — Daniel Ausema Copy Share Image
“ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax.. you cannot support yourself… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Harl whirled round, all his attention ... on Skulker. "What is that on your carapace?""What?" Skulker tried to peer back... A tinny… — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
“The postmodernist belief in the relativism of truth, coupled with the clicker culture of mass media, in which attention spans are measured… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I can think of very few science books I've read that I've called useful. What they've been is wonderful. They've actually made… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Life is a negotiation. we all want. we all give to get what we want.” — Mordin Solus Copy Share Image
“And suddenly, the earth was an alien place, and she a voyager without sure destination.” — Rodgers Clemens Copy Share Image
My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.' — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
“You know, like that old Catch 42 expression that stands for the meaning of life is that in the end you always… — Jack Campbell Copy Share Image
“The ship doesn't travel through space. It bends space around it. The ship becomes a ghost. It creates its own bubble of… — Eduardo Kim Copy Share Image
I don't speak ... I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“She'd crossed into a place where truth, even if it was brutal, was all she had to offer.” — Hillary Jordan Copy Share Image
“You've never been to another planet, have you Aimee?" "No, but I've been to Disney World.” — Maureen A. Miller Copy Share Image
“Never let other people bring you down let Jesus be the one who brings you down, because he knows what he is… — Skye Daphne Copy Share Image
“Saul's vitals were not human, but familiar: he never told me he was from another world: I never told him I was… — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
I had never seen much of Star Trek, or any other science fiction, before I was cast. But Seven's wonderful. — Jeri Ryan Copy Share Image
“It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“It illuminated a vision Dante could not have imagined in his wildest nightmares, nor Poe in the grasp of an uncontrollable delirium.” — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as science fiction, there is only science eventuality. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
“The better you tell an old story, the more you are talking about right now.” — John Crowley Copy Share Image
