Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I mean, that was the code, wasn’t it? Single girls and taken guys weren’t allowed to be friends. The leash always got… — Carrie Butler Copy Share Image
“I am chaos in this ordered society, the flaw in a carefully wrought plan. I am turbulence in the queen's eternal river.” — Eugie Foster Copy Share Image
“Humans are strange. … They value punishment because they think it means their actions are important—that they are important. … it's vanity.” — Robert Jackson Bennett Copy Share Image
“Once created, thoughts don’t just vanish into thin air. They can’t. They need a place to go. And so, those thoughts come… — Samantha Sotto Yambao Copy Share Image
“[sic] his reaction was a sign of civilization. Nobody reaches for a gun anymore, just for his lawyer.” — Peter F. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Sci-Fi, Space-Travel, Space-Opera, Chance-Encounters, Adventure-Reads, Speculative-Fiction, Book-Quotes” — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
I write speculative fiction, and in my view, speculative fiction is really just a very intense version of the work of literature… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“I backed out of the kitchen. Griff was a rigid shadow halfway down the hall, his gaze trained on the door at… — Emma Lord Copy Share Image
“Complete. What an awful word for an infected people, that final, animal stage that was the future of all of them. Chels… — Daniel Ausema Copy Share Image
“The new day is almost here, but the old one is still dragging its heavy skirts. Just as ocean water and river… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“And while we may never be able to wrap our minds around the thing itself, it is by the power of a… — Casey Fisher Copy Share Image
“Millions cheer the warrior spilling blood across the ring while the one who stands for peace is ridiculed and shamed. Must hearts… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
One of my central approaches to writing speculative fiction is to take an absurd situation, which we presently feel is normal, and… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
“Because there wasn’t anything else to do, he settled at the kitchen table with a bottle of mead and nearly emptied it.… — Ann Gimpel Copy Share Image
“In many ways sci-fi is a natural progression from the magical worlds we inhabited as children. Speculative fiction opens up parallel universes… — Ella Berthoud 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
“[T]he new weird represents a productive experiment in fantasy fiction. The New Wave of the 1960s and 1970s arguably embodied science fiction's… — Darja Malcolm-Clarke 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
“I’ve read science fiction and fantasy all my life – though when you’re a child, they just call that “books.” The first… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“My name is Olivia Braun. I am the only surviving relative to the leaders of Aeropia, a legacy I am not proud… — Clone The Book of Eva D. L. Jackson Copy Share Image
“The blast blew a hole in the smack middle of the strange Utopia vision before him and shook the dust out of… — Casey Fisher Copy Share Image
“Quarantine is real s.f. It is speculative fiction whose adventures of the mind are based in our contemporary understanding of what the… — Karen Burnham Copy Share Image
“To my surprise, the sensation of query filled my stomach, spreading through to every corner. This was followed by each point of… — J. Cameron McClain Copy Share Image
“We create stories to help us shape a chaotic world, to navigate inequities of power, to accept our lack of control over… — Doug Dorst J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
“Koji pulled Ruben onto the next cog. Together, they became part of the space between things.” — Bruce Whatley Copy Share Image
“She soaked her feet in salt and stared up at the stars and wondered whether drowning would hurt.” — Amal El-Mohtar Copy Share Image
“The ship had made the jump into hyperspace, so there were no stars or worlds to be seen, just a vortex of… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
“Humanity has been fetishizing the end of the world ever since we invented its beginning. It’s just easier to destroy it than… — Casey Fisher Copy Share Image
“Hades cracked his knuckles on each hand, and the noise was like gunpowder caps exploding in the silence. "First dish duty," he… — Josh Strnad Copy Share Image
The Singaporean speculative tradition is different. Singapore doesn't conceive itself as the centre of the world or the one country that's going… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“I will put my hook in thy nose and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the… — Donovan M. Neal Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever really been a science fiction writer. I'm closer to a fantasist, speculative fiction, whatever, but labels are… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
“On clear nights, I’d sit out on the porch and gaze up at the stars. So many of them, scrawled across a… — Emma Lord Copy Share Image
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