You know, every year 'Torchwood' has become something a little different than it was before. It's still sci-fi, but it doesn't just… — John Barrowman Copy Share Image
Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
Making a living out of acting sounded like science-fiction when I was growing up. I didn't know anyone around me who lived… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
“It was one of those dreams from which she woke up depressed about her reality, filled with a longing that pulled at… — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
“When you read my stories, I want you to see the world through my eyes; as if I based my work on… — Nila N. Brown Copy Share Image
“They worried to an excessive degree about getting gender correct, as if elves gave a shit. Humans could keep their concerns about… — Sabrina Zbasnik Copy Share Image
I read fiction all the time. It's true that I don't like fantasy or science fiction. I like "realistic" novels, particularly those… — Gustavo Perez Firmat Copy Share Image
“A human life Is the time that happens while The Earth takes a break For you to live between Inhaling and exhaling… — Haidji Copy Share Image
“Rissa Kerguelen by F. M. Busby. I read this now largely forgotten science fiction book at about the time I was starting… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
If we're talking about the science fiction or action genres, I've always tried when I could to do them in a way… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
“Why did Dodgson just stand there like that? That's not the way to act around predators. You get caught around lions, you… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“In science fiction, telepaths often communicate across language barriers, since thoughts are considered to be universal. However, this might not be true.… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“Having to amuse myself during those earlier years, I read voraciously and widely. Mythic matter and folklore made up much of that… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“People think--wrongly--that speculative fiction is about predicting the future, but it isn’t; or if it is, it tends to do a rotten… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The brain represented the most complex organism ever to exist, and impossible to tame. Morality could not be spawned by tweaking a… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
“There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Purdom has created a major body of work. Thoughtful, humane, intelligent, extrapolative, involving, his stories are exactly the sort of thing our… — Michael Swanwick Copy Share Image
I watch 2001: A Space Odyssey every time it’s on. I made the kids watch it every time, too, and now they… — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
“I am the Eschaton. I am not your God. I am descended from you, and exist in your future. Thou shalt not… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I'm only interested in science fiction that's used as a literary device, a shortcut into something more exploratory or universal about our… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he… — Matthew Modine Copy Share Image
Only a minority of science fiction dystopias attempt to plumb the real existential roots of oppression, the flaws in humanity's nature that… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'm a big genre fan. I'm a big science fiction nerd and horror film nerd. I'm obsessed with Pam Grier. I wanted… — Alex Stapleton Copy Share Image
“Daniel, I was asked of a budding author, how do you know if your story is on track? My answer: I start… — Daniel LaMonte Copy Share Image
In the century-long history of Chinese science fiction, apocalyptic themes were mostly absent. This was especially true in the period before the… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
Fantasy is fantasy. It's fiction. It's not meant to be a textbook. I don't believe in letting research overwhelm the fiction. That's… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“Xenology is an unnatural mixture of science fiction and formal logic. At its core is a flawed assumption—that an alien race would… — Arkady Strugatsky Copy Share Image
I'm frustrated with Hollywood and television and the movies because they see science fiction as an excuse for eye candy, for lots… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“She settled back in the chair and draped one leg casually over the other, her hands coming to rest together on her… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
Within a science fictional space, memory and regret are, when taken together, the set of necessary and sufficient elements required to produce… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
“All is as if the world did cease to exist. The city's monuments go unseen, its past unheard, and its culture slowly… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
“Mutants, super beings, gods, aliens, a guy who sticks to walls at one extreme, a creature who eats planets at the other;… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
We have 'Doctor Who' references on 'Futurama,' but we have a lot of science fiction references that I don't get; but in… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't be your best and most marvelous friend in the galaxy if I didn’t point out there might be a few… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
I did one sci-fi movie. I did 'Gattaca.' I liked 'Gattaca' because that was always the kind of science fiction I really… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
Everybody always talks about the science fiction genre, in particular, which always makes me think about people in spaceships. I can appreciate… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
If you ask people whether a computer can be smarter than a human, 99.9 percent will say that's science fiction. Actually, it's… — Anthony Levandowski Copy Share Image
