Book Quote by Jamais Cascio

Science fiction is about extrapolation, looking back through history, spotting a trend, and predicting where it will go.

— Robert J. Sawyer

What's great about science fiction is that it allows for surreal scenarios even if they pertain to the real world.

— Larissa Sansour

"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

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

Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.

— Michael Dirda

“Take a scientific fact or theory, add a futuristic or other-worldly setting, stir in an imaginative plot and fascinating characters, and a science fiction…

— Yvonne Coleman

If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things…

— George Saunders

Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.

— Hugo Gernsback

The popularity of fantasy surpassing science fiction and the popularity of apocalyptic fiction, particularly for young adults, may indicate a desire to escape a…

— James Gunn

It had also been my belief since I started writing fiction that science fiction is never really about the future. When science fiction is…

— William Gibson

I've always had a real interest in the way that science fiction can portray a world that could be different to our world, which…

— Naomi Alderman

“One day I found him amid large packages from which spilled attractive, glossy paperbacks with mythical covers. He had tried to use, as a…

— Stanisław Lem