I'm very lucky in that I was inspired by science fiction while I was a little kid, and I was interested in… — Wil Wheaton Copy Share Image
I think a lot of kids get scared by 'E.T.' Sometimes when I do the science-fiction conventions, I'll have a 35-year-old guy… — Dee Wallace Copy Share Image
I have never been a fan of science fiction. For me, fiction has to explore the combinatorial possibilities of people interacting under… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I remember starting 'Game of Thrones,' everyone said 'you have to watch it,' but I thought 'it's science fiction, it's not real,… — Virgil van Dijk Copy Share Image
“If we accept the premise that we’re always wrong, it really removes the incentive to spend a lot of time trying to… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“Ransolm gave her his most winning smile. It was, he knew, a good one, highly effective on most women and more than… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were… — David Brin Copy Share Image
The world of strict naturalism in which clever mathematical laws all by themselves bring the universe and life into existence, is pure… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
“By definition, you can’t experience your own death. Death is the end of consciousness. And consciousness persists. In the language of physics,… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
“A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone… — Dave Donovan Copy Share Image
“That’s when I notice Cheryl and Mickey cuddled up on the couch. She’s leaning on his shoulder, his arm around her, her… — Kea Alwang Copy Share Image
Los Angeles is an uncanny place to live. It has many science fiction qualities. For example, when I'm standing in line at… — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
Abundant choice doesn't force us to look for the absolute best of everything. It allows us to find the extremes in those… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
The religious paradigm and the science fiction paradigm are different. Apologies to science fiction fans, but the paradigm there is to create… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“In The Hunger Games, there's something for everyone. A gripping adventure. A political commentary. A love story. A cautionary tale. Some call… — Kate Egan Copy Share Image
“These people were the first to master a new kind of late twentieth-century life. They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances,… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
I haven't read a lot of science fiction, and I never intend to write it; it seems to happen a little bit… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“Here the clouds constantly adjusted like obedient phantoms, so that shadows never lengthened or shortened. At any point in space, Limbo never… — L.E. Henderson Copy Share Image
For most of us, the thought of traveling to another galaxy probably seems like science fiction. But the truth is, the foundation… — Victor J. Glover Copy Share Image
“(Writers of Earth-invader science fiction, please remember to provide all your aliens with soft grasping hands or tentacles or some other fleshy… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Rod Clark has one of the most unique voices I have ever encountered. I still quote some of his political insights years… — Kristine Kathryn Rusch Copy Share Image
A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“Cat Rambo: Where do you think the perennial debate between what is literary fiction and what is genre is sited? Norman Spinrad:… — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
I used to write my own versions of famous tales, such as William Tell or Robin Hood, and illustrate them myself, too.… — Peter Robinson Copy Share Image
“[Telzey] took out a pocket edition law library and sat down at the table. She clicked on the library's viewscreen, tapped the… — James H. Schmitz Copy Share Image
“We’re a nonviolent collective working to undermine the Trust and free the Badlands. Once the Trust is exposed as lying and corrupt,… — Georgia Clark Copy Share Image
“Science Fiction is a group of symptoms and not a disease,” so a medical student (failed) told me once. “It's like the… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“Coordinates streamed into her mind while she yanked on her environment suit, foregoing every safety check she’d ever learned. ‘Alex, we will… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
We thought it was only in science fiction that things created by humans could actually take over what is inherently our human… — Ed Ayres Copy Share Image
Many of the early greats of sf Hugo Gernsback (publisher of Amazing Stories) in particular saw themselves as educators. The… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Blade Runner is one of my favorite films. But, so many thing influenced me that aren't science fiction because they were just… — J.H. Wyman Copy Share Image
“He stood over her for a time, simply looking at her as he willed himself to climb into bed, and he knew… — Ash Gray Copy Share Image
“I was in the fifth grade the first time I thought about turning thirty. My best friend Darcy and I came across… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
The rich survive and everyone else gets ready to work 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 jobs and what do you get? Blade… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“Humans are capable of so much more. Power mongers like you have stripped away what is most valuable to us, the importance… — Aaron B. Powell Copy Share Image
“The state exists for man,not man for the state.The same may be said ofscience. These are old phrases,coined by people who saw… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And the Flatline aligned the nose of Kuang's sting with the center of the dark below. And dove. Case's sensory input warped… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
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