Books Quote by Harlan Ellison

Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.

— Paul Di Filippo

The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

— Anthony Burgess

Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.

— Alvin Toffler

“As the popularity of science-fiction increases, so inevitably does the volume of clownish imprecation against it.”

— Edmund Crispin

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

— Robert Sheckley

“Hijacking by pseudoscience and bad science fiction is a threat to our legitimate sense of wonder.”

— Richard Dawkins

Science fiction is the field that explores how change can affect us, for well or ill.

— David Brin

Science fiction is the WikiLeaks of science, getting word to the public about what cutting-edge research really means.

— Robert J. Sawyer

“science fiction is literary fiction with the lid blown off”

— Robin Winter

Science fiction is the very literature of change.

— Frederik Pohl

“Writers are dangerous because ideas are dangerous.”

— Brandon Gene Petit

“There's this word Libel that people love to pass around when filing lawsuits against someone who accurately described them in a publication. It does…

— Niedria Kenny