Best Science Fiction Lines

564 Science Fiction quotes by 352 unique authors

I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered… — Carter Burwell
Science fiction is not necessarily either fiction or anything to do with science. — Judith Merril
I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it.… — Kevin J. Anderson
General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else. — Marvin Minsky
We live on a minute island of known things. Our undiminished wonder at the mystery which surrounds us is what makes us human. In science… — Damon Knight
Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock. — Alvin Toffler
To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little… — Sheri S. Tepper
Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd. — Max Brooks
For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly… — Gene Roddenberry
There's a fine line between imagination and reality. An inventor dreams something up, and pretty soon, it's there on the table before him. A science-fiction… — Ridley Pearson
The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers. — Sheri S. Tepper
Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction. — Rudy Rucker
It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done anything on, which… — Michael O'Donoghue
First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art. — Clive James
Geoff Nelder inhabits Science Fiction the way other people inhabit their clothes. — Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation. — Michael Dirda
Unbreakable is a little bit Starship Troopers and a little bit Esmay Suiza, with a dash of Firefly for flavor. W. C. Bauers gives us… — Unknown Author
Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny. — Lawrence Wright
Star Trek wouldn't die. There were a whole lot of young people who were touched by the thought process of science fiction. If you watched… — Gary Lockwood
I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway. — Nigel Kneale
If there’s a zeppelin, it’s alternate history. If there’s a rocketship, it’s science fiction. If there are swords and/or horses, it’s fantasy. A book with… — Debra Doyle
The future. Space travel, or cosmology. Alternate universes. Time travel. Robots. Marvelous inventions. Immortality. Catastrophes. Aliens. Superman. Other dimensions. Inner space, or the psyche. These… — Kate Wilhelm
Metaphysics attempts to discover the ultimate nature of reality, and in this sense, the innerspace of science fiction is metaphysical fiction. — Kate Wilhelm
Geoff Nelder's ARIA has the right stuff. He makes us ask the most important question in science fiction-the one about the true limits of personal… — Unknown Author
Science fiction is essentially a kind of fiction in which people learn more about how to live in the real world, visiting imaginary worlds unlike… — Brian Stableford

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