I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
By the time I was in my teens, I was reading science fiction. I had this maternal uncle who had cartons of… — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
One of the things that I love so much about fantasy and science fiction is that the weirdness that it creates is… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We range widely, we readers of fiction, but I think we all need a home. Mine is science fiction. It's my home… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
I read everything. When I say everything, I read everything: children's literature, Y.A., science fiction, fantasy, romance - I read it all.… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“You didn’t tell Summer about it, did you?” “What?” Gage scoffs. “Yeah, telling your girlfriend the Angel of Death might visit her… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.… — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
“So. Our little pearl of warmth, our spinning orrery of lives, our island, our beloved solar system, our hearth and home, tight… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“I opened the door and stepped in. Raw pain filled me at the sight of my painting. 'Show me what it looked… — Kimberly Kinrade Copy Share Image
For if there were a list of cosmic things that unite us, reader and writer, visible as it scrolled up into the… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“At his booming voice, her eyes flew open. If he wasn't already on the ground, he would have fallen to his knees.… — Kiersten Fay Copy Share Image
“Science fiction inspires scientists, but it doesn't exist to dictate what our future should look like. Great science fiction is fun to… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
I don't want to make a film that offends people, but the whole world is so politically correct - I'm not going… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
“We need to give an informative set of criteria for the best explanation. It is very difficult to do so. Here are… — Michael E Emmering Copy Share Image
“The male author unthinkingly creates a world in which every single member of society is male except—hey presto!—when the protagonist feels like… — Howard Mittelmark Copy Share Image
Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Belt. Interstellar epics. Galactic empires. Trips to… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
“That's the Zone for you: come back with swag, a miracle; come back alive, success; come back with a patrol bullet in… — Arkady Strugatsky Copy Share Image
“If you ever find yourself coming out of a time machine, run. Run away as fast you can. Don't stop. Don't try… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
“What we've done is make the categories of science fiction and fantasy larger, freer, and more inclusive than any other genre of… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I think action movies on the whole have moved more and more into large spectacle, even leaving out super hero movies that… — Walter Hill Copy Share Image
Oh, I'm nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I'm nerdy about board games. My favorite board… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
“Individuals reacted in any number of ways to extreme stress and, relatedly, to impending death. A non-negligible percentage of people reacted in… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think,… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
“With faces entirely invisible through suits, it was hard to be sure, but my impression was that he was watching me and… — Janet Edwards Copy Share Image
“Knowing all the languages in the world could help you to really understand all the jokes you can hear... from my future… — Ivan Stoikov - Allan Bard Copy Share Image
'The Devil in the Dark' impressed me because it presented the idea, unusual in science fiction then and now, that something weird,… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“No…you can ask for a beautiful, witty, intelligent yet minxy woman in your arms every night, a mansion on a hill—or better… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
By serializing two novels in 'Analog,' the world's No. 1, best-selling science fiction magazine, I've had 200,000 words of fiction and three… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
As a fan of science fiction and as a kid who loves monsters, science fiction movies and this, that and the other,… — Kevin Grevioux Copy Share Image
I like the Sci Fi channel and 'Science Fiction Theatre.' I've been doing a lot of television-watching and thinking about good songs… — Roky Erickson Copy Share Image
My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became… — Daniel Goldstein Copy Share Image
I'm not so fond of the sort of science fiction that isn't really science fiction but is sometimes thought to be -… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I've always loved science fiction, fantasy, manga, comic books; so I guess, to some degree, those things influence my personal idea of… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
The science fiction I write comes from a pretty deep pool of literature, not just from the reflection of other science fiction… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
In a single lifetime, roughly from 1865 to 1930, one finds the pioneering and patterning works of modern fantasy, science fiction, children's… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
It's kind of cool that I know of all this great science fiction being written in China, and most of it is… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
