America Quote by Hugo Gernsback

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

Science fiction [is] the kind of writing that prepares us for the necessary mutations brought about in society from an ever changing technological world…

— Walter Mosley

A lot of people forget that the origin of science fiction in the U.S. was in the post-First World War period when there was…

— Robert J. Sawyer

There were four major 20th-century science fiction writers: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein and Ray Bradbury. Of those four, the first…

— Robert J. Sawyer

“Rigorous extrapolation, a gosh-wow love of gadgets, and mystical adventures in strange and mysterious places; every major stream in speculative fiction today can be…

— Orson Scott Card

Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

— Orson Scott Card

I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

— Orson Scott Card

I came into science fiction at a very good time, when the doors were getting thrown open to all kinds of more experimental writing,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

When I was a child, science fiction was the first source I've found for information. Science fiction was a very very low cultural stream…

— William Gibson

There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by…

— Charles Stross

Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book is not…

— Janet Morris

In high school and college, I started to read more and write science fiction myself. I was fully engaged in writing in the 1990s.

— Liu Cixin