Cases Quote by Debra Doyle

If there’s a zeppelin, it’s alternate history. If there’s a rocketship, it’s science fiction. If there are swords and/or horses, it’s fantasy. A book…

— Debra Doyle

Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it.

— Katharine Kerr

About the time you might start to think that science fiction - the real stuff, not the species of fantasy that goes under the…

— Lois Tilton

Science fiction and fantasy is a kind of literature that embodies the highest aspirations of the human race.

— Harlan Ellison

I think fantasy is best described as a kind of fiction that evokes wonder, mystery or magic, a sense of possibility beyond the ordinary…

— Kate Forsyth

Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be.

— Orson Scott Card

Fantasy is, at its best, the purest access to storytelling that we have. It universalizes a tale, it evokes wonder and timeless narrative power,…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.

— Michio Kaku

“I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the history of…

— Ray Bradbury

Much blood has also been spilled on the carpet in attempts to distinguish between science fiction and fantasy. I have suggested an operational definition:…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Fantasy, in addition to being great storytelling, moves us at some unique and profound level. It has, I think, the power of mythology, or…

— Lloyd Alexander

Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.

— Rod Serling