My mother fed my love of demons, science fiction, and paranormal. She was a devout horror movie fan who kept me up… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
We physicists don't like to admit it, but some of us are closet science fiction fans. We hate to admit it because… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“A joke is a witticism or play on words that’s meant to be funny. I say ‘meant to be’ because most jokes… — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
“So is this being in love? I stay with the moment, waiting to find out, the space between us fluctuating with uncertainty.… — Kea Alwang Copy Share Image
“They must train you pretty good not to react to shit like that. Must take stuff out of you.” Vince’s eyes intensified… — Barry Kirwan Copy Share Image
I have such a vivid memory of seeing science fiction movies and going to the lobby and playing whatever the space games… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I am a conventional science fiction author. But that said, once your work is published, it no longer belongs to you. It… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“Bowman was aware of some changes in his behavior patterns; it would have been absurd to expect anything else in the circumstances.… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
“The beauty of Mars exists in the human mind. without the human presence it is just a concatenation of atoms, no different… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“I can understand that people want to feel special and important and so on, but that self-obsession seems a bit pathetic somehow.… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
For me, two of my favourite science fiction films are Blade Runner, which is fantastic, and Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys. Both of… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
Essentially, you know, one of the great advantages of working in science fiction is it does give you an opportunity to talk… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
“We’re moving faster with our science and technology than our morals are evolving, we’re going to have to live in the future… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a kid, I didn't need to be convinced the future promised peril and oppression, so when I started thinking up the… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
“His eyes burned with intensity. I wondered briefly if someone he knew was being held in that cold room that smelled like… — Jaye Wells Copy Share Image
There are similarities between historical novels and science fiction. Being thrown into the Napoleonic Wars is just as much of a different… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Thus "good science fiction" is a value term, not an objective thing, and yet, I think, there really is such a thing,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism. — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
I'm a storyteller, and there's some genres I like. I don't think I'm ever going to do science fiction, but I want… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
“So as near as I could tell the end of the world began roughly about the time that Billy Carver’s butt rang… — Steve Vernon Copy Share Image
To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“Molten wounds still glow where the two nuclear bombs detonated. And I wonder, in my last moments, if the planet does not… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“If humanity is annihilated because we were too busy squabbling with one another to manage a proper stand, we probably deserve the… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“Subconsciously, we all want to be nebula... In the end, we’re all connected. We’re all going to become one cloud of light… — Jason Daniel Chaplin Copy Share Image
Growing up in the '70s and '80s, science fiction and especially fantasy had such a stigma attached to them. I felt so… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
When I look back at many of the moments of wonder, awe, or terror that I've got from science fiction, it's often… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“The future is our present for the next generation. It's our duty and our total responsabilty to leave a good deed from… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“I searched my mind for the right visualization. I knew it had to start with what I put in my head. That… — Tina M. Randolph Copy Share Image
“And it didn't matter. It wouldn't make a fucking difference if I dropped to the floor and started crying like a baby.… — Lisa Henry Copy Share Image
I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy,… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Seconds ebb and wane. She’s not afraid of her voice anymore, but she’s not entirely sure she trusts it. She’s seen the… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
I have always loved science fiction. One of my favorite shows is 'Star Trek.' I like the trips, where it drops my… — Leslie Nielsen Copy Share Image
If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a… — Charlie Jane Anders Copy Share Image
“I don't know if you've ever been covered head to toe in prickle bush, but let me tell you, it's not a… — Elizabeth Newton Copy Share Image
It's kind of a misnomer about science fiction that science fiction is about anything other than people. It's about people doing stuff,… — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
