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John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and Old Man's War is classic SF seen from a modern perspectiveâ€”a fast-paced tour of a… — Robert Charles Wilson
Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown… — China Mieville
[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it! — Terry Pratchett
Science fiction [is] the kind of writing that prepares us for the necessary mutations brought about in society from an ever changing technological world and… — Walter Mosley
I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to… — J. G. Ballard
What kind of hard SF do I write? Everything from near-future, Earth-centric techno-thrillers to far-future, far-flung interstellar epics. — Edward M. Lerner
I have to believe SF writers will continue to inspire the public to have faith in - to demand! - a future that is at… — Edward M. Lerner
In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In SF, a trope… — Edward M. Lerner
Many a fine SF story uses science or technology merely as backdrop. Many a fine SF story presumes a technological breakthrough and explores its implications… — Edward M. Lerner
One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil… — Jack McDevitt
Science fiction is a literary field crowded with strong opinions, and no SF novelist delivered himself more memorably of his views - on politics, sexuality,… — Paul Di Filippo
The SF genre, of course, is really an organically evolved, marketplace-determined, idiosyncratic grab bag of themes and signifiers and characters and icons and gadgets, some… — Paul Di Filippo
It was not until the appearance of cyberpunk in the 1980s that SF began to grapple in a broadly meaningful way with the reality of… — Paul Di Filippo
Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image. — Paul Di Filippo
When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing. — George Stephen
A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may… — Frederik Pohl
For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone. — Walter Jon Williams
Hi..I'm Maggie..single mother, helicopter pilot, native of San Francisco..SF 49er Fan, SF Giants fan. Next to my sons, cooking and travelling are my passion. I'm… — Unknown Author
The question isn't whether it's SFW, the question is whether W is SF it. — John Alejandro King Aka The Covert Comic
'Made it as a writer'? I'm still wondering if I've made it as a writer. I've made it as a published writer of the type… — Eric Brown

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