Best Science Fiction Words
564 Science Fiction quotes by 352 unique authors
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Jack Campbell's dazzling new series is military science fiction at its best. Not only does he tell a yarn of great adventure and action, but…
— Catherine Asaro
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The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion
— Donna J. Haraway
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Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.
— Rod Serling
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Star Trek, I thought, was a very inconsistent show, which at times sparkled with true ingenuity and pure science fiction approaches, and other times was…
— Rod Serling
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I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.
— Paul Krugman
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People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the time traveler had…
— Tad Williams
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In the annals of science fiction, where dystopias rule the imaginative roost, Star Trek stood nearly alone in telling us that our future would be…
— Charles Shaar Murray
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Purdom has created a major body of work. Thoughtful, humane, intelligent, extrapolative, involving, his stories are exactly the sort of thing our genre exists to…
— Michael Swanwick
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The world of strict naturalism in which clever mathematical laws all by themselves bring the universe and life into existence, is pure [science] fiction. Theories…
— John Lennox
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There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.'
— Norman Spinrad
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I don't remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel.
— Vonda N. McIntyre
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Y'know, we're all wasting our time writing this hack science fiction! You wanta make real money, you gotta start a religion!
— L. Ron Hubbard
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Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real…
— Bruce Sterling
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Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism.
— David G. Hartwell
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The film is therefore a form of science fiction, in which humans, beasts and machines are on the verge of extinction - 'sacred motors' linked…
— Leos Carax
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The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to $.15 a day
— Eduardo Galeano
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Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we…
— Ted Chiang
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The Golden Age of science fiction is thirteen.
— Terry Carr
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The most visceral science fiction always takes place in the past and focuses on the humdrum
— Dean Cavanagh
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I don't resent being identified with B science fiction movies at all -why should I? Even though they were not considered top of the line,…
— John Agar
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I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does…
— Sarah Zettel
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I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.
— Sarah Zettel
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In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want…
— James Gunn
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What's needed today, now, more than ever, is 'Star Peace' for there is an ominous, mutual threat to all science fiction. It's called 'Twilight'. And…
— George Takei
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A citizen at his home in Rockford, Illinois, or Boulder, Colorado, could read a newspaper, listen to a radio, or watch the round-the-clock coverage on…
— Jeff Greenfield
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