Sf Quotes

66 Sf quotes by 41 unique authors

Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book is not truly… — Janet Morris
To write good SF today...you must push further and harder, reach deeper into your own mind until you break through into the strange and terrible… — Gardner Dozois
Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first,… — Greg Egan
That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change. Science… — Frederik Pohl
Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud. — 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
An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table. — Walter Jon Williams
Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information and regurgitated it in startling… — Walter Jon Williams
I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither… — Lynn Abbey
Peter Watts delivers-solid, inventive hard sf about the deep sea, but as we've never seen before. This moves like the wind. — Gregory Benford
SF is a controlled way to think and dream about the future. An integration of the mood and attitude of science (the objective universe) with… — Gregory Benford
Jeff Carver is a hard sf writer who gets it right-his science and his people are equally convincing. NEPTUNE CROSSING combines his strengths, from a… — Gregory Benford
I had said that Le Guin's worlds were real because her people were so real, and he said yes, but the people were so real… — Jo Walton
SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy and addictive; it's fun. After… — M. John Harrison
And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is… — Jerry Pournelle
Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile. — Rudy Rucker
I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent, the same as any other… — Stanley Schmidt
I'm told my SF is of the hard variety and my Fantasy is romantic but hopefully all the characters are strong and the plots are… — Sarah Zettel
I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it, are, by the nature of… — Stanley Schmidt
What SF can do better than anything else is show us the range of our possible futures, and what we can do to realize the… — Stanley Schmidt
Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it would be hard… — Stanley Schmidt
Linguistics is our best tool for bringing about social change and SF is our best tool for testing such changes before they are implemented in… — Suzette Haden Elgin
Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led… — Greg Egan
And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers come… — Stanley Schmidt
The future depicted in a good SF story ought to be in fact possible, or at least plausible. That means that the writer should be… — Frederik Pohl

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