For me, fantasy and speculative science fiction are the genres that feel closest to how I feel about being alive. Like, when… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
“[The Void Which Binds] actual but unaccessible presence in our universe is one of the prime causes for our species elaborating myth… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a great way to pretend you are writing about the future when in reality you are attacking the recent… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I often use detective elements in my books. I love detective novels. But I also think science fiction and detective stories are… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
“It's the superhero problem . . . .Superpowers make everything personal. Batman versus Joker. Fantastic Four versus Galactus. The Big G might… — Ian McDonald Copy Share Image
If we're talking about the science fiction or action genres, I've always tried when I could to do them in a way… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
“Why did Dodgson just stand there like that? That's not the way to act around predators. You get caught around lions, you… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“In science fiction, telepaths often communicate across language barriers, since thoughts are considered to be universal. However, this might not be true.… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“Having to amuse myself during those earlier years, I read voraciously and widely. Mythic matter and folklore made up much of that… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“People think--wrongly--that speculative fiction is about predicting the future, but it isn’t; or if it is, it tends to do a rotten… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The brain represented the most complex organism ever to exist, and impossible to tame. Morality could not be spawned by tweaking a… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
“There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Today, we know that time travel need not be confined to myths, science fiction, Hollywood movies, or even speculation by theoretical physicists.… — Clifford A. Pickover Copy Share Image
“His punch knocked her back a meter into the wall. His fist had moved of his own volition, carrying a rage and… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
I was standing on the shoulders of other science fiction writers like William Gibson, who had written 'Neuromancer' on a typewriter before… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
“He was pale as only one state on Bhast dictated—not lacking color necessarily or vitality, certainly. Fey white was more comparable to… — T.A. Miles Copy Share Image
Many people have tried to define science fiction. I like to call it the literature of exploration and change. While other genres… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I’ve never liked urban myths. I’ve never liked pretending to believe in them; never understood why everyone else doesn’t see straight through… — Mikey Campling Copy Share Image
“As her vision flickered one last time, the man was gone; it was her mother looking into her eyes. Her mother’s eyes… — Kim Cormack Copy Share Image
I'm the only member of SFWA in Nebraska, but I don't pine away for the companionship of other science fiction writers. I… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
“A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading nightly. All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
In the annals of science fiction, where dystopias rule the imaginative roost, Star Trek stood nearly alone in telling us that our… — Charles Shaar Murray Copy Share Image
“Do we not each dream of dreams? Do we not dance on the notes of lost memories? Then are we not each… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
Blade Runner is a rare science fiction movie so full of material that pages can be written about it without scratching the… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
“Rigorous extrapolation, a gosh-wow love of gadgets, and mystical adventures in strange and mysterious places; every major stream in speculative fiction today… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
One of the problems with science fiction, which is probably one of the reasons why I haven't done one for many, many… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Literary science fiction is a very, very narrow band of the publishing business. I love science fiction in more of a pop-culture… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
“Matter and energy are equivalent, according to the equation E=mc2, where E stand for energy, m for mass and c for the… — Marcha A. Fox Copy Share Image
“When they would spar, Calic held nothing back, as if he possessed a deep rage clawing for release. He demonstrated a ferocity… — Kiersten Fay Copy Share Image
My first obligation is to entertain but as far as science fiction goes, it's much easier to comment on today from another… — Andrew Niccol Copy Share Image
“Imagine you’re a fish, swimming in a pond. You can move forward and back, side to side, but never up out of… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
“He had seen many criminals in his years in Division. Dangerous men and even more dangerous women. Small-time hucksters and savvy crime… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, my grandparents were Greek immigrants on my father's side. My grandfather used to read me Greek myths,… — Laeta Kalogridis Copy Share Image
Bradbury was the one guy who was published in places like the 'Saturday Evening Post.' He was the guy who brought science… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“When you got captured, I didn't know..." He trailed off, had to chug whiskey before he could continue. "If it'd be like..."… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
If you've read a lot of vintage science fiction, as I have at one time or another in my life, you can't… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I never could read science fiction. I was just uninterested in it. And you know, I don't like to read novels where… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
“But I promise you, you guys can do it. In four days you'll be the happiest person Earth has ever seen. You'll… — Johan Harstad Copy Share Image
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