“You can't kill an idea the way they try to. You can keep it down awhile, but sooner or later it'll come… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
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“Case shuffled into the nearest door and watched the other passengers as he rode. A pair of predatory-looking Christian Scientists were edging… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“That year the Ribeiro's daffodils seeded early and they seeded cockroaches. Now, ecologically speaking, even a cockroach has its place -- but… — Janet Kagan Copy Share Image
I'm a science fiction author at heart, and what I like about the Cthulhu Mythos setting is that, at its core, it… — David Conyers Copy Share Image
“It was drizzling. As people rushed along, they began opening umbrellas over their heads, and all at once the streets were crowded,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“As her feet beat the concrete ground beneath them, her chest began to ache. It had been a long time since she… — Ross Caligiuri Copy Share Image
“Overused Settings All too often, games borrow settings from one another or from common settings found in the movies, books, or television.… — Ernest Adams Copy Share Image
“I want to end my life like a human being: in Intensive Care, high on morphine, surrounded by cripplingly expensive doctors and… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
“Wars and chaoses and paradoxes ago, two mathematicians between them ended an age d began another for our hosts, our ghosts called… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“I love him, and I love us together more than I love myself. I will do what you ask, but if," Kara… — Anna LaForge Copy Share Image
Fiction writers, at least in their braver moments, do desire the truth: to know it, speak it, serve it. But they go… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
Certainly for me, as an astrobiologist, science fiction has played an important role. One of the quandaries of our field is that… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
We see films all the time, whether they have access to all kinds of intellectual property or artifacts, and the one thing… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
“Everything tends to become a satellite - even our brains may be said to be outside us now, floating around us in… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“Humanity’s first faster-than-light spacecraft crashed into Pluto and vaporised a significant portion of it. Oops. Pluto’s status as a planet had been… — L. G. Estrella Copy Share Image
One of the most poignant pieces of recent science fiction for me was the portrayal of the adults in the Pixar film… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
“As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science fiction readers, I am also,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Science fiction, as a genre is fundamentally about ideas. It's about asking an impossible question, "What if...?" and building a story out… — Dave Robinson Copy Share Image
“...I don't believe in Him, and if He does exist, I don't like Him. His type of gods aren't gods who echo… — James Lovegrove Copy Share Image
“It is not for nothing that you are named Ransom,” said the Voice... The whole distinction between things accidental and things designed,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Tej seemed such a sunny personality, much of the time--these flashes of dark were like a crack in the sky, shocking and… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy, I've always written horror stories and monster… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist and one of the leaders of the American… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Brea watched the other Jaren, the Jaren she wasn't sure she wanted to know, slip through the cracks of his face. He… — Daniel Pike Copy Share Image
“Expect an army of Vigil drones, nearly as a many Praesidis guards, a Machim ground detachment of super-soldiers and at least one… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
Ribofunk indicates a focus on biology as the upcoming big science in the way that physics was for the last 50 or… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I vividly remember my first 'Superman' comic, which my granddad bought me when I was about 7. From that point on, all… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
The solutions like freezing zygotes, fertilized eggs, of all kinds of animals and so on, or keeping them in zoos and having… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Mining asteroids is a well-oiled trope of science-fiction. But someday, actually doing it will make economic sense. Many of the essential metals… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“My dear sir, that is just where you are wrong. That is just where the whole world has gone wrong. We are… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you would have preferred it if I had not written you any letter. Perhaps you would have liked it better if… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
For the moment, machines able to 'think' in anything approaching a human sense remain science-fiction. How we should prepare for their potential… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
“I believe you to be Filidor Vesh," said the dwarf. "You are entitled to your beliefs, however ill-founded," Filidor replied. "No doubt… — Matthew Hughes Copy Share Image
“With biting solemnity he spoke. “What are you holding on to as Mara? Why are you holding on to what does not… — Dew Platt Copy Share Image
The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
“The second jet, however, brought the promise of a third and a fourth. Here was a pattern. Jets are falling out of… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
