Well, good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
“As the night air started to creep in, he lifted her in his arms and walked the back way to their home… — Joseph McGinnis Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Neuromancer', I had a list in my head of all the things the future was assumed to be which… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
There is a document in every novel in the world. Even in the most fantastic novel, even in science fiction, there is… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“No, Sarah. There's more. There's always more. I won't give you up. I won't! It's not just a game. Midgard is real… — Brandon R. Chinn Copy Share Image
“Dear Jeff, I happened to see the Channel 7 TV program "Hooray for Hollywood" tonight with the segment on Blade Runner .… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“I would rather never make a penny on book sales and know that many had derived some fair pleasure from my writing,… — Eric Diehl Copy Share Image
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction...All I'm writing is just what I… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
“They're both plutocracies, rule by the rich. If they had won, all they'd have thought about was making more money, the upper… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Why travel to the Moon or Mars if we only continue our wars there with Russia or China or Africa? Why build… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I was writing novels at eight. It was a science fiction epic, which went by the unimprovable title of 'Another Kind of… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
I tell people the first time I decided to write a novel I was in my mid-20s, and it was, 'Well, it's… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
There are people you do not want to upset in the world - the politically disenfranchized who feel they have nothing to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The authentic human being is one of us who instinctively knows what he should not do, and, in addition, he will balk… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Sat apart from the decay, an area of woodland, which shimmered in green. It offered a kind of radiance Namtilla had never… — D.J. Cowdall Copy Share Image
The trouble with science fiction is that you can write about everything: time, space, all the future, all the past, all of… — Philip J. Klass Copy Share Image
“Yatima found verself gazing at a red-tinged cluster of pulsing organic parts, a translucent confusion of fluids and tissue. Sections divided, dissolved,… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
Cory Doctorow should be too busy for lunch. He's co-editor of, and a prolific contributor to, one of the most influential blogs… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Fantasy involves that which general opinion regards as impossible; science fiction involves that which general opinion regards as possible under the right… — Daryl Gregory Copy Share Image
“In Hamilton 's The Universe Wreckers ... it was in that novel that, for the first time, I learned Neptune had a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“When you mix Science Fiction with Fantasy you don't have a pure genre, the two are, to a professional separate genres. I… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“What?" The dread in her tone told Rob she knew what. "How much longer?" "Thirty seconds." She laughed with a panicked urgency.… — Will McIntosh Copy Share Image
“By the standards of a tourist strolling past looking for a quick lunch, the place was a dive. The sign on the… — Scott B. Pruden Copy Share Image
As you see, I bear some resentment and some scars from the years of anti-genre bigotry. My own fiction, which moves freely… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“His vision blurred, his grip on the dash faltered and the cockpit lost definition. Then all the diati rushed back to him… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
I probably spend more time writing than reading science fiction. I find that science-fiction literature is so reactive to all the literature… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
“They construct billboards out in the sea, painted allegories adorn their facades, hawking sex and sentiment to the opulent, the fortunate of… — Holly Walrath Copy Share Image
“Visionary fiction” is a term we developed to distinguish science fiction that has relevance toward building new, freer worlds from the mainstream… — Adrienne Maree Brown Copy Share Image
“Gadgetry will continue to relieve mankind of tedious jobs. Kitchen units will be devised that will prepare ‘automeals,’ heating water and converting… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“I think of myth and magic as the hieroglyphics of the human psyche. They are a special language that circumvents conscious thought… — Ripley Patton Copy Share Image
Sci-fi uses the images that sf - starting with H.G. Wells - made familiar: space travel, aliens, galactic wars and federations, time… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Anything that doesn't fit this mode has been shoved into an area of lesser solemnity called 'genre fiction,' and it is here… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“A história de todas as grandes civilizações galácticas tende a passar por três fases distintas e identificáveis: a da Sobrevivência, a da… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I really wish that peoplewould just say, 'Yes, it's a comic. Yes, this is fantasy. Yes, this is Science Fiction,' and defend… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“You have to think if we've been visited by extraterrestrial life, it was like a zookeeper walking into the chimp enclosure: He… — J. Richard Singleton Copy Share Image
I believe that science fiction is as profound as you want it to be or it can be very simple entertainment, and… — Joe Flanigan Copy Share Image
“To me, the best, if not the only function of imaginative writing, is to lead the human imagination outward, to take it… — Clark Ashton Smith Copy Share Image
“there was a sort of embarrassment about storytelling that struck home powerfully about one hundred years ago, at the beginning of modernism.… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
