“Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities.” — Miriam Allen de Ford Copy Share Image
“Despite centuries of English literature, the most famous split infinitive in all of history comes from Star Trek.” — R. Curtis Venture Copy Share Image
I think what Stargate has going for it is a sense of humor about their science fiction. — David Hewlett Copy Share Image
A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“Nothing helps your partner keep his mind on Jesus more than having a sign of His love tanned on your primary erogenous… — Scott B. Pruden Copy Share Image
There's no one 'right' way of making a science fiction movie; there's no one way of making any kind of movie, really! — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person. — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction. — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
The brain, knowing that a person can't live forever in this world, rationalizes a future, or other-dimensional, world in which immortality is… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
“A layer of fine powder coats his skin. “My lungs are turning to concrete,” Rob wheezes, hacking and spitting. “So are my… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
For reasons probably related to the popular vision of Albert Einstein and, also, the threat posed by black holes in comic books… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“I will die. You will die. We will all die and the universe will carry on without care. All that we have… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
Most people have made this mistake of thinking Middle-earth is a particular kind of earth or is another planet of the science… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“She leaves my side and heads deeper into the apartment singing, “—if the spirit tries to hide, its temple far away… a… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
Most science fiction is about tomorrow, a tomorrow brought to you by innovations in science and technology, and China was worried that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“I don't like killing, but I'm good at it. Murder isn't so bad from a distance, just shapes popping up in my… — Graeme Shimmin Copy Share Image
I don't think that VR is going to lead to humanity being enslaved in the matrix or letting the world crumble around… — Palmer Luckey Copy Share Image
“As sci-fi writer Theodore Sturgeon said, 90 percent of everything is crap. But science fiction has not been forgiven for its crap.… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“And strange were the tales of the pond in the meadow, And eager we listened with eyes opened wide To Those tales… — J.R. Withers Copy Share Image
“Imagine you are Siri Keeton: You wake in an agony of resurrection, gasping after a record-shattering bout of sleep apnea spanning one… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“Sooner or later it must come out, even if other men rediscover it. And then...Governments and powers will struggle to get hither,… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“She hoped he could move on one day and find happiness. He had the luxury to try. She hoped he would succeed.… — Kiersten Fay Copy Share Image
My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything. — James Dyson Copy Share Image
Science fiction to me is the ultimate art form, because it speculates on bodies and worlds that don't exist. — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
“Do you dream about time travel or do you time travel while you dream? #AzariasTor” — Richard Abbott-Brailey Copy Share Image
I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer. — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail. — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
If you really want you people to innovate, buy a science fiction book, tear off the covers, and tell them it's history. — Nolan Bushnell Copy Share Image
“Arrogance and Conceit are the mother and father of a closed mind. Charles Jennings, "Journey of the Chosen".” — Richard Nance Copy Share Image
“The t'ca [ship] left them, rolled and slewed off in a maneuver that made sense to a multi-brained snake.” — C.J. Cherryh Copy Share Image
Acting in more science fiction films would be fine by me. I love doing them. — Sarah Douglas Copy Share Image
“After the end of the world, there is a world. Life doesn’t stop. It changes. And it changes me.” — Caroline George Copy Share Image
Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I was always into science fiction and I always liked sci-fi. Aliens! Spaceships! And all that stuff. — Marky Ramone Copy Share Image
“Once bitten twice shy? Sure, but... why not get a bigger dog and bite them back?” — A.A. Bell Copy Share Image
A lot of the science fiction that I grew up reading was written when we still thought that Venus might be an… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments. — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
The best movie for me is a science fiction movie, the best books for me are science fiction books. I love this… — John de Lancie Copy Share Image