Cases Quote by Bruce Sterling

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 future is not a scenario written, which we only have to act out; it is a work which we have to create.

— Roger Garaudy

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

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

— Neal Stephenson

“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

The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.

— William Gibson

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

— Frank Herbert

There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.

— Joe Haldeman

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

Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out.

— John Updike

“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 writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

— Isaac Asimov