Fiction Quote by China Mieville Download Open image “I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.” — China Mieville ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction Predictions Science Science fiction Thinking
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I think there's always been, to some degree, a misunderstanding about what science fiction is all about, in that it has been judged by… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is really, really… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science fiction does not attempt to predict. It extrapolates. It just says, "What if?" not what will be? Because you can never predict what… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Science fiction doesn’t try to predict the future, but rather offers a significant distortion of the present…We sit around and look at what we… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers aren't in the prediction business; they're in the speculation business, using 'hasn't happened' or 'hasn't happened yet' to create entertaining scenarios… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive.... Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Science fiction is about extrapolation, looking back through history, spotting a trend, and predicting where it will go. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“I just can't get with this idea that literature is a 12-step program. If someone wants to read a book to see good people… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Houses built on bridges are scandals. A bridge wants to not be. If it could choose its shape, a bridge would be no shape,” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Either way, it is a curio of the moment that hard-left advocates of ‘all power to the soviets’ were delegated by a soviet opponent… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“We have to establish our credentials as an explorocracy; so to survive and rule ourselves, we have to explore.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“almanacs, or what was left of them when those pages making incorrect predictions and offering unhelpful advice had been torn out.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“There are no telepaths in this universe, I think, but there are empathics, with languages so silent that they may as well be sharing… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“The poets and artists and philosophers, resistance activists, secret scouts and troublemakers, had become, as they must, soldiers.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“…progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to” — Phil Hogan Copy Share Image
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear,… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“His hands on my waist he gently pulled me n embrace. I could feel his breath on my face our lips were about to… — Nicole Eglinger Copy Share Image
In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
I don't think it's always a sign of respect for persons (inside or outside of fiction) to pretend to be able to represent, to… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
