Always Quote by Alastair Reynolds

There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.

— Andrew Bird

There wasn't much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than ever before,…

— Stephen Jay Gould

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 from other…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.

— Jack Williamson

There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.'

— Norman Spinrad

The increasing technicality of the terminology employed is also a serious difficulty. It has become necessary to learn an extensive vocabulary before a book…

— Thomas George Bonney

Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define it.

— Tom Shippey

“The first book to use the term ‘science fiction’ in the title was also a vintage paperback, an anthology called The Pocket Book of…

— Pradeep Sebastian

It's kind of a misnomer about science fiction that science fiction is about anything other than people. It's about people doing stuff, sometimes doing…

— Greg Bear

I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public…

— Jean M. Auel

“For so long considered a second-rate category to other writing genres, Science Fiction should be allotted its true place in literature. The reason Science…

— Joseph Duda

How could you possibly call something science fiction at this point unless it has to do with something that hasn't been done? When I…

— El-P