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564 Science Fiction quotes by 352 unique authors

Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be—a particularly important exercise for those who… — Samuel R. Delany
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 see… — Samuel R. Delany
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look,… — A. E. van Vogt
Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurist drivel; ‘Star Trek’ can turn your brains into puree of bat guano; and the greatest science… — Harlan Ellison
Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud. — Theodore Sturgeon
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only into the future,… — Theodore Sturgeon
I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used… — Theodore Sturgeon
America is a nation of liars, and for that reason science fiction has a special claim to be our national literature, as the art form… — Thomas M. Disch
The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a new gimmick, or… — Brian Aldiss
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 kinds… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The brain, knowing that a person can't live forever in this world, rationalizes a future, or other-dimensional, world in which immortality is possible. In other… — Philip Jose Farmer
The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here,… — Al Gore
If it has horses and swords in it, it's a fantasy, unless it also has a rocketship in it, in which case it becomes science… — Debra Doyle
Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible. — Rod Serling
My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted… — Jean M. Auel
Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet. — Vinton Cerf
You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history — Iain Banks
The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different. — Neal Stephenson
Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall… — David Brin
True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The final frontier is just science fiction--don't believe… — Jeanette Winterson
Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making. — Ursula K. Le Guin
My friend Ian Hagemann, a regular at Wiscon, once said on a panel that when he reads science fiction futures that are full of white… — Nalo Hopkinson
When people ask me to define science fiction and fantasy I say they are the literatures that explore the fact that we are toolmakers and… — Nalo Hopkinson
Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain. — Julian May
The Place of No Shadows, in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine (1990) In our Universe, matter is arranged in a hierarchy of structures by successive… — Francois Jacob

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