Sf Quotes

66 Sf quotes by 41 unique authors

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
John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and Old Man's War is classic SF seen from a modern perspective—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

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