Sf Quotes

66 quotes by 41 authors

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
Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to… — Dan Simmons
Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we… — John Thomas Sladek
I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles… — John Thomas Sladek
SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions. — John Thomas Sladek
I was twelve when I read my first sf magazine — Philip K. Dick
I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we… — Philip K. Dick
SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction… — Larry Niven
There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good… — Alan Dean Foster
Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly. — Alan Dean Foster
The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist. — Bruce Boxleitner
I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday. — Jack L. Chalker
From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer. — Samuel R. Delany
SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible. — Piers Anthony
I feel SF is going through an experimental phase right now. — Sarah Zettel
As its best, SF is the medium in which our miserable certainty that tomorrow will be different from today in ways we cant predict, can… — John Brunner

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