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
“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
“Science fiction is more than just our collective dreams for a human race that reaches to the stars. In many ways, the… — George Takei Copy Share Image
You do a drama, and you are limited by the rules of reality, and in science fiction, you create your own reality.… — David Twohy Copy Share Image
“Well, for one, you walk around like you’re so much better than everyone else. We’re all a bunch of soulless animals or… — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
Physics is often stranger than science fiction, and I think science fiction takes its cues from physics: higher dimensions, wormholes, the warping… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“Learning a language promoted the first tender shoots of intercultural understanding. People became familiar with previously alien concepts and, as a consequence,… — Fay Abernethy Copy Share Image
In 1955, when I'd write a science-fiction novel, I'd set it in the year 2000. I realised around 1977 that, 'My God,… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western… — Cynthia Breazeal Copy Share Image
Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Science fiction is the fiction of ideas. Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“It was the dog Abel, who - as animals have been reported to do - had made his way over all England's… — K.W. Jeter Copy Share Image
“And I'm thinking about the old man. He'll be pounding on the glass right about now... or maybe not now. Maybe in… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
If I would had been born years earlier, I would have been in all the Westerns. It's just the way that the… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
[Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
“Our late modern world prides itself on recognising, for the first time in history, the basic equality of all humans, yet it… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Regrettably, with '2001' having a title that had a year in it, science fiction essentially set itself up in the public's imagination… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“Everything tends to become a satellite - even our brains may be said to be outside us now, floating around us in… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image