“During my first few months of Facebooking, I discovered that my page had fostered a collective nostalgia for specific cultural icons. These… — George Takei Copy Share Image
“Anyone who is unimpressed with sneering atheism will be unimpressed by the famous science fiction works by Margaret Atwood or the fantasy… — John C Wright Copy Share Image
I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
“Either I’ve got a wart on my nose they find curious, or I’ve grown a tail, Albie Merani muttered to himself. Just… — Rw Rivers Copy Share Image
Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed,… — Francis William Aston Copy Share Image
“My childhood dream came true, but now I have a new one. I dream that some of these young people, while they're… — Mike Massimino Copy Share Image
“We—humanity—didn’t come this far by being afraid. Explorers and visionaries have willingly headed off to certain death for thousands of years and… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
“The Ancestral Trail was split into two-halves of 26 issues each. The first half takes place in the Ancestral World and describes… — Frank Graves Copy Share Image
“We say, "Well, the only answer is…" or, "If you would just. . . ." Whatever follows these two statements narrows the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“From The Ghost Wars- on the concept of the Torah as ancient science fiction. “Take the story of the fall of the… — Cole J. Davis Copy Share Image
“What sort of an imaginary voice is that? I asked myself, suppose Columbus had heard an imaginary voice telling him to sail… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Science fiction, as I mentioned before, writes about what is neither impossible nor possible; the fact is that, when the question of… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
“Everything was so much sharper without the Link fogging me--sights, sounds, smells. It was exhilarating and shocking and terrifying. I knew my… — Heather Anastasiu Copy Share Image
In a dispassionate comparison of the relative values of human and robotic spaceflight, the only surviving motivation for continuing human spaceflight is… — James Van Allen Copy Share Image
Who are we?' And to me that's the essential question that's always been in science fiction. A lot of science fiction stories… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
“I would like [my readers] to better understand human beings and human life as a result of having read [my] stories. I'd… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Picking apart a story for its scientific underpinnings doesn't diminish it, it enhances it, makes us dream of the possibilities it proposes.… — Kyle Hill Copy Share Image
“I could be listening to Painted Red weave the stories of the saints in her rich roomy voice, and beginning to see… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
“You said these guys are your cousins? Is that, like, for real? It's, like, not a turn of phrase?" "What on earth… — Mark Speed Copy Share Image
“He looks like a Miltonian angel falling with wrath and glory. His exoskeleton sheds its friction armor, as Lucifer might have shed… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“I had been hobbled, perhaps even crippled by a pervasive internet society I had come to depend on and take for granted...… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The computer has evolved into a partner, a tool, and an environment--not just in science fiction, but in the public consciousness as… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
In a way, being a Mormon prepares you to deal with science fiction, because we live simultaneously in two very different cultures.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I myself have dreamed up a structure intermediate between Dyson spheres and planets. Build a ring 93 million miles in radius -… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
Of course, it's always difficult to disentangle fact from fiction in relation to, e.g., the singularity project. Many scientists I know are… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“(When I say cyborgs, I of course mean us.) ... (Some seem unaccepting in this transformation, and it indeed has been gradual.… — Eugene Lim Copy Share Image
“There were movies to go see at the Gem, which has long since been torn down; science fiction movies like Gog with… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“But he doesn't see what's so great about leaving your mark on things. You have a life and then it ends and… — M. R. Carey Copy Share Image
All people who grew up with science fiction and fantasy and horror went through the whole acculturation process of the genre. We… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
In all the known history of Mankind, advances have been made primarily in physical technology; in the capacity of handling the inanimate… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“She feels him scoot closer, the heat of him radiating off his chest and absorbing into her skin. His legs straddle her… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“The name Atlantis came from an old book Victoria had never read. A lifetime residency in the ASM paradise was rumored to… — Benjamin R. Smith Copy Share Image
I worked out a book which I thought was just straight science fiction -- with everything pretty much explained, and suddenly I… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“Her vision came into focus and again this time the trees crackled and mocked her. You’re going to die you silly bitch,… — Kim Cormack Copy Share Image
“I will define science fiction, first, by saying what sf is not. It cannot be defined as "a story (or novel or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I read the script [of Good Kill], it read like a science fiction film. And Andrew [writer/director Andrew Niccol] is known… — Zoe Kravitz Copy Share Image
“The perfect Queen of the SJWs – and she would be a queen, never a king – would be a mixed-race lesbian… — Vox Day Copy Share Image
“The only social change presented by most SF has been towards authoritarianism, the domination of ignorant masses by a powerful elite—sometimes presented… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The principle of analogy is so simple, so natural, that everyone uses it in daily life. Imagine someone sitting down in front… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
“Hackworth took a bite of his sandwich, correctly anticipating that the meat would be gristly and that he would have plenty of… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
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