“Since the war, we're the only intelligent species left in the universe, therefore we think everything in this universe has to conform… — Robert Buettner Copy Share Image
I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.” – Associated Press interview,… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Obsession is so extreme and so hard to imagine with the rational mind that it has a science-fiction-like quality to it-it's almost… — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
Geoff Nelder's ARIA has the right stuff. He makes us ask the most important question in science fiction-the one about the true… — Brad Linaweaver Copy Share Image
What's needed today, now, more than ever, is 'Star Peace' for there is an ominous, mutual threat to all science fiction. It's… — George Takei Copy Share Image
I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“It was just a colour out of space—a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it;… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Doctor Who has never pretended to be hard science fiction … At best Doctor Who is a fairytale, with fairytale logic about… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“She didn’t want to be the savior of humanity. She never had. She didn’t want to be the vanguard—of destruction or salvation.… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
I spent most of my teen years trying to figure out the rules of life, theories for why things happened, why people… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
“Investors include former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Google cofounder Larry Page. Planetary Resources’ lead was followed in 2013 by a firm… — Stephen L. Petranek Copy Share Image
That's what 'Star Trek' was: We don't know how to make an ideal society, but we're going to portray that, and then… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“Her head dropped into her hands. Dammit! She’d spent months preparing for the challenges of a war against an immortal enemy wielding… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it's the alien equivalent of a discarded tomato can. Does a beetle know why it can enter the can only from… — Algis Budrys Copy Share Image
The genius is not in how much Stanley Kubrick does in “2001: A Space Odyssey,'' but in how little. This is the… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the net to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
You can't be a 21st-century science fiction writer writing about Mars without doing tips of the hat to Edgar Rice Burroughs, to… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“God, she was beautiful. Hair a tangled mess, clothes torn, lips pale and swollen, skin streaked in dirt. And she was so… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
Scientists are embarrassed by science fiction; they want to distance themselves as much as possible. ... I think there's nothing to be… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The idea that, you know - when I was growing up - that everybody would carry around a portable communicating device, that… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
“Arthur C. Clark wrote: Science fiction is something that could happen - but usually you wouldn't want it to. Fantasy is something… — James M. Corkill Copy Share Image
In some ways, it's the start of all those science-fiction movies that we watched as kids coming to fruition where you've got… — Shannon Walker Copy Share Image
“Knowledge is like an endless resource; a well of water that satisfies the innate thirst of the growing human soul. Therefore never… — Chidi Okonkwo Copy Share Image
I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college. However, my adult books… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
“Death and his scythe do not come. No sweeping black capes or ethereal escapes. There’s no pearly gate, no prisms of colors… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“From what I can see of humans, you often destroy wonderful things in the pursuit of something that your delusions make you… — A.L. Davroe 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
“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
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
I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed through English literature, probably… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I read mostly science-fiction and fantasy when I was a teenager, and I was always drawn to stories where the characters had… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
“Orcs do not have enemies.” Monde tried to search for the proper term, “We have…adversaries.” “Isn’t that the same thing?” “Depends on… — Sabrina Zbasnik Copy Share Image
I was a science fiction geek from an early age, enthralled by the questions of life in the universe. As I got… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
We have people being a little uncomfortable in their life on Earth with finances and so on, so Science Fantasy or Science… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
“And tomorrow... what? Nobody knows. You understand? Neither I nor anyone else knows. It's unknown. You understand it's come to an end,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“I catch movement from the corner of my eye. A tell slender boy stands near us, just a few feet away. Adrenaline… — Georgia Clark Copy Share Image
The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism. That's the… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
One of the standard story-generating engines for science fiction is to take something we normally think of as metaphoric and treat it… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image