If you look at the most meaningful science fiction, it didn't come from watching other films. We seem to be in a… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
“A moment later the scowling face of Admiral Jellico appeared on the screen. He looked as ill-humored as ever. Privately, Calhoun felt… — Peter David Copy Share Image
Most people assume wrongly that science fiction is a male-based genre, when, in fact, there are far more women who tune into… — Bonnie Hammer Copy Share Image
My personal mission statement is to combine the intimately human and the grandly cosmic. I like to think that science fiction works… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
There are plenty of characters of color in fantasy and science fiction. But when you ask the question, "How many of them… — Stephen H. Segal Copy Share Image
“He did not have time to wallow, to give a moment’s thought to what may have happened to her or whether she… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
There are certain kinds of people who write science fiction. I think a lot of us married late. A lot of us… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Please help keep the world clean: others may wish to use it. Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“He was terrified he was making the wrong choice. He relied on his instincts in his work but now he didn’t dare… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
“American cold war culture represented an age of anxiety. The anxiety was so severe that it sought relief in an insistent, assertive… — W. Scott Poole Copy Share Image
“All fiction is metaphor. Science fiction is metaphor. What sets it apart from older forms of fiction seems to be its use… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Science fiction also provides a sense of nostalgia that is always present when it comes to Palestine, in that whenever we talk… — Larissa Sansour Copy Share Image
“I steal one glance over my shoulder as soon as we are far from the foreboding luminance of the neon glow, and… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
“In other words - and this is the rock-solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation's Galaxywide success is founded -… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
What I perceive in science fiction is that it's more about how everything looks than what's going on, which I think is… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
“It restores your balance, in the end, even in a funny way your cheerfulness, when you come to know, without regrets, that… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
“Then the Skopamish showed up. Their chests heaving, rotting eyes like dull raisins in their skulls. Their eyes found mine like a… — Tamara Rose Blodgett Copy Share Image
“I used to think that English-speaking who conveniently look, dress, and act human only turned up in lazy science fiction. But as… — Rob Reid Copy Share Image
“Music took her somewhere, and I used to wonder where. I thought it was dumb, the way she lived for a collection… — Megan Lindholm Copy Share Image
“Normally, I don't take to drinking so early in the morning, but I bend the rules when I get my ass kicked… — C.J. Fella Copy Share Image
“There's a sameness to streetlife. On every world I've ever been, the same underlying patterns play out, flaunt and vaunt, buy and… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
I discovered fantasy and science fiction when I was about 10, and read nothing else for about three years. I ran out… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Without the dreamers who write science fiction and other imaginary material we'd still be sitting in caves ... if we weren't already extinct.” — William C. Samples Copy Share Image
China lacks good science fiction, but not mediocre science fiction. Even so, the gap between Chinese and American sci-fi is still very… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“The folktale world is oriented positively toward its protagonist; a folktale is defined by the hero's triumph: magic weapons and helpers are,… — Darko Suvin Copy Share Image
“Brother, when you've been here as long as I have, you'll come to discover there are only one or two essential things… — Brodi Ashton Copy Share Image
“What is it in humans that makes us so eager to believe ill of one another? ... What makes us so hungry… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
When people ask me to define science fiction and fantasy I say they are the literatures that explore the fact that we… — Nalo Hopkinson Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I think the type of actor I am, I tend to play strong leading female characters. The shows I've been on happen… — Alaina Huffman Copy Share Image
I had a conversation with a biologist in an art gallery, and he persuaded me that it was possible to grow a… — Suzanne Lee Copy Share Image
“Good Samaritans: Truth, justice and the American way–for them it wasn't only a comic book code; it was a way of life.… — Rob Thurman Copy Share Image
With some exceptions in science fiction and other genres I have small difficulty in avoiding anything that could be called American literature.… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
A lot of science fiction is very accessible and very readable, but a lot of people are justifiably put off by the… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
The idea of science fiction, mythology, and creating a world is my favourite thing. I do love the reality of dramas and… — Hannah John-Kamen Copy Share Image
I've always been kind of a mutt creatively. I started off in journalism, and I've actually done more police and procedural shows… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
