Fiction Quote by Arthur C. Clarke

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

— Frank Herbert

You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science…

— Anonymous

Science fiction doesn’t try to predict the future, but rather offers a significant distortion of the present…We sit around and look at what we…

— Samuel R. Delany

The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different.

— Neal Stephenson

I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.

— China Mieville

“Sometimes people say that we're living in the future, and time's up for science fiction, but I think that never will be, because science…

— Stephen Baxter

“science fiction is not about the future but about the possibilities inherent in the present.”

— Judith B. Kerman

Science fiction does not attempt to predict. It extrapolates. It just says, "What if?" not what will be? Because you can never predict what…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or…

— A. A. Gill

Science fiction writers aren't in the prediction business; they're in the speculation business, using 'hasn't happened' or 'hasn't happened yet' to create entertaining scenarios…

— James Gunn

“Science fiction inspires scientists, but it doesn't exist to dictate what our future should look like. Great science fiction is fun to read and…

— Daniel H. Wilson

“Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin