Books Quote by Frederik Pohl Download Open image “Science fiction is the very literature of change.” — Frederik Pohl ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Change Fiction Literature Science Science fiction
That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change.… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the field that explores how change can affect us, for well or ill. — David Brin Copy Share Image
Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define it. — Tom Shippey Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the branch of literature that deals with the effects of change on people in the real world as it can be… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on. — David Brin Copy Share Image
Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science fiction literature's focus is on ideas, the concept of change, and the impact on humanity. Those concepts are hard to capture on film.… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
“There are people who never pass a certain point in their emotional development. They cannot live a normal free-and-easy, give-and-take life with a sexual… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“Anyway, that's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's lives. And you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“If a picture on the wall can remember, you remember that this is not the first time. If a picture on the wall can… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“Wealth ... or death. Those were the choices Gateway offered. Humans had discovered this artificial spaceport, full of working interstellar ships left behind by… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
When I sit down to the feast of life ... I'm so busy planning on how to pick up the check, and wondering what… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
For someone to be taken seriously it was valuable to have the appearance of someone who deserved to be taken seriously. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“You asked me, 'Do you call this living?" And I answer: Yes, it is exactly what I call living. And in my best hypothetical… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
