Fictional Quote by Jeff Vandermeer

It's a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.

— Paul Di Filippo

Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.

— Paul Di Filippo

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

— Jessamyn West

“Science fiction is about using speculative scenarios as a lens to examine the human condition.”

— Ted Chiang

“Utopian and dystopian truth is stranger than fiction.”

— Michael Wall

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

— Anonymous

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition,…

— Ralph Ellison

“Once in a while, when reality is too painful to bear, fiction can help us to restore the fragility of our human condition.”

— Frances Stead Stellers

Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own.

— Neil Gaiman

I think that if there's one key insight science can bring to fiction, it's that fiction - the study of the human condition -…

— Charles Stross

If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.

— Veronica Roth

Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.

— Charles Stross