Answer Quote by Jerry Pournelle

The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.

— William Gibson

There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.

— Joe Haldeman

You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science…

— Anonymous

You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows…

— Jerry Pournelle

The future is hidden even from those who make it.

— Anatole France

Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy.

— Haruki Murakami

The future is not really the future. It's just a present that looks good.

— Steven Heller

The future is not a scenario written, which we only have to act out; it is a work which we have to create.

— Roger Garaudy

The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Science fiction doesn’t try to predict the future, but rather offers a significant distortion of the present…We sit around and look at what we…

— Samuel R. Delany

What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or…

— Albert Brooks

All we really have when we pretend to write about the future is the moment in which we are writing. That's why every imagined…

— William Gibson