“A five-week sand blizzard?" said Deep Thought haughtily. "You ask this of me who have contemplated the very vectors of the atoms… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write.… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
“In AR, a falling tree makes no sound unless there is a witness to behold the event. Otherwise, it is only a… — Mark Cantrell Copy Share Image
When I was starting out, science fiction was a little genre over there, which only a few people read. But now --… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Growing up,” he said, “my favorite author was Isaac Asimov, the science fiction writer. Have any of you ever read the short… — Douglas E. Richards Copy Share Image
In the theory of evolution there is no talk of God and no Bibles are used. They're not looking for higher powers,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and… — Berenice Marlohe Copy Share Image
Science fiction is not a genre that has much respect in China. Critics have long been discouraged from paying attention to the… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
What writers of fantasy, science fiction, and much historical fiction do for a living is different from what writers of so-called literary… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“A twisted, pale figure writhing in agony, chest bare and hideous. Tight, rigid cords of sickly green veins webbed across the boy’s… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
“Doesn’t he look just like a ring wraith?” she said thoughtfully. “Are you kidding?” replied Cathy, “I most certainly won't be carol… — Paul Baxter Copy Share Image
“The scientific (not to mention philosophical and metaphysical) implications are astounding. Let's say some of the atoms in your body originally formed… — Bob Berman Copy Share Image
“...only in the late 1100s and 1200s did scholars in Sicily and Spain translate Aristotle's greatest philosophical and scientific texts. These translations… — William C Placher Copy Share Image
“...She wasn't anyone special. She wasn't that brave, that clever or that strong. She was just somebody that felt cramped by the… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“Weird fiction is a strange beast, an eclectic genre (or subgenre). It originated in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century through… — Helen Marshall Copy Share Image
I've always resented the force of attraction that traps me here on Planet Earth. It makes me feel like a bug stuck… — Charles Platt Copy Share Image
Science fiction fans are awesome - they love you so much that they'll watch anything you do, even if it's complete crap.… — Katee Sackhoff Copy Share Image
It was hard for me to believe. I would look down and say, 'This is the moon, this is the moon,' and… — Alan Bean Copy Share Image
“She stared at her console, wanting to punch it. Her dream, running to save her life, to save everything, was all going… — Barry Kirwan Copy Share Image
“They sit in their soundproof rooms and issue tone-deaf edicts and call themselves controlling the world. And one day they ask you… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
I think Douglas [Douglas Adams] was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real… — Lalla Ward Copy Share Image
“You’re covered in blood again.” “I really am.” “Why are you always covered in blood when I wake up after being unconscious?”… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
I took a great joy with inventing new kinds of mechanisms. I invented new kinds of machines. I've been a student of… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
“Other science fiction shows had science advisers and consultants," Hanson pointed out. "It's science fiction, " Weinstein said. "The second part of… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
I'm not opposed to doing science fiction or comedy, but there has to be respect. I refuse to be the joke, the… — Darlene Cates Copy Share Image
In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon 5' universe, they're in… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
“Howling duststorms of nuclear ashes. Human and animal bone powder. Flakes and fragments of the destroyed world. Filthy tempests of death. I… — C.J. Anderson Copy Share Image
I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William… — Tahmoh Penikett Copy Share Image
“Only a technological age could condemn unborn generations to exist in it, as if man were mere protoplasm, without emotion or aspiration.” — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think what I love about science fiction and what sci-fi can be really good at is obviously you're working with outlandish… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
I didn't have a manifesto. I had some discontent. It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream American science fiction had often been… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“For those who have never attended a science fiction convention, masquerades are features of most of the larger ones. Awards are presented… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“His whisper continued to stream a silent cacophony of warnings, kill and damage reports and pleas for assistance. He allowed himself two… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers create all sorts of futures - that comes with the job. But it's not the type that matters -… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
I think the best science fiction, especially literature, is political in nature and is often an allegory about something problematic in our… — Simon Kinberg Copy Share Image
People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
I find it's bizarre that science fiction is the one branch of television to push the idea of strong female characters. And… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
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