Dissection Quote by Frederik Pohl Download Open image “The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.” — Frederik Pohl ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dissection Fiction Method Reconstruction Science Science fiction
I think science fiction gives us a wonderful toolkit to disassemble and reexamine this kind of incomprehensible, constantly changing present that we live in,… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction. — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities. — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
[Science fiction is] the attempt to deal rationally with alternate possibilities in a manner which will be entertaining. — Lester del Rey Copy Share Image
“...this is the essence of science fiction, the conceptual dislocation within the society is generated in the author's mind, transferred to paper, and from… — Philip K Dick Copy Share Image
I juxtapose and slice up reality and fiction quite easily. I'm aware that it is up for grabs and a powerful tool to explain… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
If you take the shackles off your imagination, you can go anywhere with science fiction. — Lani Tupu 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 didn't do anything as active as deciding that I wanted to be a writer. For one thing, I didn't feel like I was… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
“The Maestro spoke again. "When we are not, at what point do we become?" I could not reply. For I had grasped no shape… — Theresa Breslin Copy Share Image
I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of emotion, content… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Let the historic dissection begin. Man-made global warming is a dying market and a zombie science. — Joanne Nova Copy Share Image
The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
there have been too many events in my life, and in the lives of my friends, which have defied any kind of scientific explanation.… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
A dissection of music perception and creation that starts slowly and inexorably builds to a grand finish. I loved reading that listening to music… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
We need only view a Dissection of that large Mass, the Brain, to have ground to bewail our Ignorance...We admire...the Fibres of every Muscle,… — Nicolas Steno Copy Share Image
Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another. — Matthew Pearl Copy Share Image
Life became a science when interest shifted from the dissection of dead bodies to the study of action in living beings and the nature… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man cannot be enlightened through any organization, creed, dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image