Alternatives Quote by Iain Banks Download Open image “Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.” — Iain Banks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alternative Ways Alternatives Fiction Fiction Trying Looking Realities Realities Reality Science Science fiction Trying Way
[Science fiction is] the attempt to deal rationally with alternate possibilities in a manner which will be entertaining. — Lester del Rey Copy Share Image
"Hard" science fiction probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reconstructs the probable… — Jack Williamson Copy Share Image
What's great about science fiction is that it allows for surreal scenarios even if they pertain to the real world. — Larissa Sansour Copy Share Image
The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future. — Hugo Gernsback Copy Share Image
One of the most interesting things about science fiction and fantasy is the way that the genres can offer different perspectives on matters to… — Tansy Rayner Roberts Copy Share Image
I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all! — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“Looking at me, you'd never guess I'd killed three people. It isn't fair.” — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“The flames had passed over those flattened blades and consumed their heather neighbours on either side while they themselves had remained, made proof against… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself. Very specific; this bit, here, right now. All the rest… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“We're not in prison, we're not junkies and we're not Young Tories...it's no small achievement.” — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
If you have any helpful suggestions I'd be pleased to hear them. If all you can do is make snide insinuations then it would… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“He hit and fatally injured my innocent and unfortunate uncle whose muttered last words in hospital, before his coma became a full stop, were:… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
I am very sad that some designers are still using real fur when the fake alternatives are so effective and so easily obtainable. — Twiggy Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I strongly reject any conceptual scheme that places our options on a line, and holds that the only alternative to a pair of extreme… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look… — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
[When asked how it felt to be a female prime minister:] I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon. — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
THE REAL PURPOSE OF HOLOCAUST REVISIONISM IS TO MAKE NATIONAL SOCIALISM AN ACCEPTABLE POLITICAL ALTERNATIVE AGAIN. — Harold Covington Copy Share Image
Men since the beginning of time have sought peace...military alliances, balances of power, leagues of nations, all in turn have failed, leaving the only… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
Buddhist words such as compassion and emptiness don't mean much until we start cultivating our innate ability simply to be there with pain with… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Maximise the alternative forms in which a user might receive a service, and the alternative sources of supply. — Don Chipp Copy Share Image
In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only… — Michael Musto Copy Share Image
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