Development Quote by James Gunn Download Open image “In science fiction a fantastic event or development is considered rationally.” — James Gunn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Development Events Fantastic Fiction Science Science fiction
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision. — Marion Zimmer Bradley 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
[Science fiction is] the attempt to deal rationally with alternate possibilities in a manner which will be entertaining. — Lester del Rey Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Science fiction always has had strains of pessimism and optimism weaving through its historical development, sometimes one dominating and then the other, usually depending… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as science fiction, there is only science eventuality. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Science fiction is about things that plausibly might happen. Grounding my work in the real world helps make that clear. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Picking apart a story for its scientific underpinnings doesn't diminish it, it enhances it, makes us dream of the possibilities it proposes. I think… — Kyle Hill Copy Share Image
By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism. — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Science fiction has always had a dark side. There has been a touch of the irrational and absurd in the genre from the very… — Douglas Lain Copy Share Image
I could give you some names of Workshop participants who are as good as many who are being published but haven't had the right… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
The zombie is in a lot of ways the perfect horror movie bad guy. It plays on so many fears all at once. The… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
In a way, metafiction breaks down the story and makes it less real. But in another respect, by that very breaking down, it actually… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
I prefer to bring these to the service of story rather than to let them replace narrative. — James Gunn Copy Share Image
I really like people who can do both drama and comedy and not some like middle of the road do both drama and comedy.… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
When I was a small child, I partially learned to read with comics, in particular with 'Scamp,' about the Lady and the Tramp's male… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
When 'Blade Runner' came out, and especially, even actually when 'Alien' came out, it kind of changed how all science fiction movies were designed… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
The majority of my life is 'Guardians,' but being able to clean my brain a little bit by doing something totally different like 'Belko'… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
I was as huge Spider-Man fan as a kid, but I really liked The Defenders a lot. I was also a big Moon Knight… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
I'm a huge Howard the Duck fan. For people who don't know, I'm a huge Marvel Comics fan, but Howard the Duck was maybe… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
Scooby's the greatest cartoon character ever. He isn't cute like Mickey or smart like Bugs or fearless like Woody and Buzz - he's a… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
A lot of times I'll show someone a technique I got really good with, but I didn't put all the hours in. I didn't… — Eddie Bravo Copy Share Image
Thoroughly understand what it is to understand, and not only will you understand the broad lines of all there is to be understood but… — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from his apartment,… — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us… — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty… — Anna Lindh Copy Share Image
They are the gateway for our modern esthetic development, the prophets of the new time. They are most of all, the primitives of the… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
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