It's easy to get stuck in a rut when you're writing in one genre for too long. So, when you've been writing… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“At its best, science fiction stimulates imagination and creativity. It gets reader and writer off the beaten track, off the narrow, narrow… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“Rachel Henson stood facing him, immaculate in her uniform and ready for duty as always. She looked as though she had spent… — Peter James West Copy Share Image
As a child I always steered clear of science fiction, but in the autumn of 1977, the bow-wave of publicity for the… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
We live on a minute island of known things. Our undiminished wonder at the mystery which surrounds us is what makes us… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
“Blood drummed in her ears and adrenaline coursed through her veins, driving her to move. To act. Her hands trembled against his… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
History is not going to look kindly on us if we just keep our head in the sand on armed autonomous robotics… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“... we have created a man with not one brain but two. ... This new brain is intended to control the biological… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“This world must differ from the given in at least one way, and this one way must be sufficient to give rise… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“That’s very trusting.” Iris watches Anke search our backpacks. “We’re saving people’s lives. We thought we could be,”Anke says. I’m more fixated… — Corinne Duyvis Copy Share Image
“Maybe it won’t come as too much of a surprise that a certain amount of alcohol was involved with this Darwin Award… — Jody Summers Copy Share Image
In Technologized Desire, the cultural pathologies that mark the panic ecstasy and terminal doom of the posthuman condition are powerfully rehearsed in… — Arthur Kroker Copy Share Image
“The castle of Enysfarne was a dark and towering force that hovered over what was left of my innocence. It contained my… — Charles A. Cornell Copy Share Image
There's a fine line between imagination and reality. An inventor dreams something up, and pretty soon, it's there on the table before… — Ridley Pearson Copy Share Image
Notice how every science fiction movie or television show starts with a shot of the location where the story is about to… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
I read anything I could get my hands on: science fiction, fantasy, horror, thrillers. I even became hooked on the Bantam reprints… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
Because we're watching so many movies and are consumed by so many stories, science fiction lets you do something a bit fresh… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurist drivel; ‘Star Trek’ can turn your brains into puree of bat guano; and… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
“I can’t—won’t do that to him,” Summer says sharply. “Or to myself. Besides, your feelings for me aren’t real. The Society did… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the… — Faran Tahir Copy Share Image
As a science fiction and fantasy writer, I used to love writing bleak, grimdark futures full of bleak, grimdark people. But I've… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, breaking out of a certain mentality is like planning a prison break. You can't just go for it and hope for… — Lauren Lola Copy Share Image
I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood… — Gil Gerard Copy Share Image
As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
In France, it's always about life, normal life. We always stick with these realistic things. So when French people are dreaming about… — Berenice Bejo Copy Share Image
When it comes to the things that people really want in science fiction - like space travel - the simplest things end… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
What if most of the technologies readers and cinemagoers are presented with in bestselling books and blockbuster movies are not science fiction,… — James Morcan Copy Share Image
“I still have the scars from when they captured me and beat me in the middle of the street." "You don't get… — Amy Tintera Copy Share Image
Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that… — Lalla Ward Copy Share Image
Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and… — Hugo Gernsback Copy Share Image
“You brothers-such a nest of rivalries. I warned him to make you sisters, that it would make things more civilized. He thought… — Chris Wraight Copy Share Image
Take 'Ex Machina.' Everyone said it was one of the great feminist works of science fiction. But what I found disappointing is… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
Science fiction was one of those places, particularly during the McCarthy era, where you could write whatever you wanted because it was… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Science-fiction fans are the most loyal fans in the world. It's true. They'll watch things that you actually should give them their… — Katee Sackhoff Copy Share Image
“HARD SF and EPIC FANTASY – both of these forms have been conventionalised, proscribed and prescribed, such that they constitute valid GENRES… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate - it helps us look at our society from a different… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
Attempting to define science fiction is an undertaking almost as difficult, though not so popular, as trying to define pornography... In both… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
