Challenges Quote by Alvin Toffler

The literary trappings and moralizing of science fiction I find insufficiently compelling.

— A. B. Yehoshua

Science fiction is a great way to pretend you are writing about the future when in reality you are attacking the recent past and…

— Ray Bradbury

The great thing about science fiction is that it transcends national boundaries.

— Robert J. Sawyer

Historically, science-fiction and fantasy literature is no stranger to controversy, but it has learned how to adapt and endure.

— Kameron Hurley

[Science fiction is] the attempt to deal rationally with alternate possibilities in a manner which will be entertaining.

— Lester del Rey

“Science fiction is a literature that belongs to all humankind. It portrays events of interest to all of humanity, and thus science fiction should…

— Liu Cixin

“Science fiction is the one literature that deals with today's reality - that provides a basis for discussion and understanding of the complex events…

— Biggle

By isolating the issues of race, gender, sexual orientation, climate change, environment, governance, economics, catastrophe and whatever other problems the present embodies or the…

— James Gunn

Science fiction always has had strains of pessimism and optimism weaving through its historical development, sometimes one dominating and then the other, usually depending…

— James Gunn

Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together.

— Ray Bradbury

Science fiction is not a genre that has much respect in China. Critics have long been discouraged from paying attention to the category, dismissed…

— Liu Cixin

Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism.

— David G. Hartwell