“It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science -- it's a lot more fun, and no more likely… — Lord Rees Copy Share Image
“We will be one step down from the Creator," she said, her olive-hued face tightening into an expression that she considered dramatic.… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“A recent survey of 2,000 male graduates of Harvard Business School found that penis length & IQ were equally good predictors of… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
I see every book as a problem that you have to solve. That is what dictates the form you use. It's not… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“You can't live your life based on "what if" or "what might have been". Unless you're a Science Fiction Author, in which… — Ray Daley Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She gazed at the bay of wrecked shuttles in dismay. The last of her adrenaline seeped away at the sight of the… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
Some people say they're gathering DNA. Perhaps they're gathering it for the future when the human race is stronger or weaker, who… — Alex Jones Copy Share Image
“[I]n adult literary fiction, stories are there on sufferance. Other things are felt to be more important: technique, style, literary knowingness. Adult… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
As both an essayist and science fiction and fantasy novelist, I write about and for the future. I talk about the past… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
In effect, I grew up in a sort of timewarp, a place where times are scrambled up. There are elements of my… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
When I was little, I guess I was just an ordinary kid. But then things changed when I was in junior high.… — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
There are loads of sociopolitical, racial, class and future-planet situations that really interest me, but I'm not really interested in making a… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
“The beauty of science fiction was that its authors never had to work out the logistics of how we would arrive in… — Emily Witt Copy Share Image
I find it interesting that authors of fantasy and science fiction novels are rarely asked if their books are based on their… — Malinda Lo Copy Share Image
When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Look in Kego’s defense he was only Nine and a half when he took command of the ship and she had been… — Steve Merrick Copy Share Image
I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that… — Roland Emmerich Copy Share Image
“You can't show me the Earth from space and fly right past the moon, entice me into this magical machine and invite… — Elizabeth Newton Copy Share Image
Novels written by university professors and set in the groves of academe are far more rigidly predictable than anything but the most… — John Clute Copy Share Image
I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid… — A. B. Yehoshua Copy Share Image
I've loved science fiction my whole life. But I've never made a science fiction movie. And it's [World Of Tomorrow] sort of… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
I tend not to read or watch Science Fiction, particularly not comedy Science Fiction. The point is that if it's less good… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done… — Michael O'Donoghue Copy Share Image
“Science fiction and fantasy literature has always been defined by tales of heroism. It is meant to represent humanity at our very… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
We've had nine classes together since Kindergarten... ten if you count Religion of Other Cultures, which you didn't because you called it… — Easy A Copy Share Image
I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around… — Laura Mennell Copy Share Image
“We’re more interested in the editor of this Astounding Science Fiction. General Groves sent me to ask that someone who knows more… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
“You should stay and keep me company, so I don't get lonely.” “You don't seem like the type of guy who gets… — Kiersten Fay Copy Share Image
“sustained exponential improvement in most aspects of computing, extraordinarily large amounts of digitized information, and recombinant innovation. These three forces are yielding… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science fiction is where I started out, really. When I was a kid, I was a complete addict of science fiction. It… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I certainly have been writing stories that are hard science fiction, that are very reminiscent of 'Golden Age tales' from the '40s… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
I find that in the science fiction world, you have almost more women fans than male fans and I think it's because… — Katee Sackhoff Copy Share Image
“In the empty expanses of space, the wandering traders need men like myself to care for the spiritual side of a life… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Take a scientific fact or theory, add a futuristic or other-worldly setting, stir in an imaginative plot and fascinating characters, and a… — Yvonne Coleman Copy Share Image
I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more… — Joe Morton Copy Share Image
It does sound like a science fiction story and I may sound like one of these guys who walks up and down… — Lembit Opik Copy Share Image
I get offered a lot of science fiction work and there is a new project in the pipeline called Master Race, set… — Jeremy Bulloch Copy Share Image
“The science fiction novelist Isaac Asimov reportedly once said, “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image