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I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting…

— Fred Saberhagen

Speculative fiction is where my heart lies. It's what I read growing up, and it's what I read as an adult.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.

— Margaret Atwood

“Speculative fiction by definition is geared toward an audience that wants strangeness, an audience that wants to spend time in worlds that absolutely are…

— Orson Scott Card

I read and write speculative fiction because I want to go someplace really different.

— Kameron Hurley

“In many ways sci-fi is a natural progression from the magical worlds we inhabited as children. Speculative fiction opens up parallel universes to which…

— Ella Berthoud

I've loved sci-fi and speculative fiction since I was a kid. It was inevitable I'd try my hand at it at some point.

— Rick Yancey

“If there's another writer, like Ross McDonald or Raymond Chandler, and all they're writing are mysteries, they won't be accepted," he said. "And that's…

— Walter Mosley

“Funny, they made this new genre called Speculative Fiction, I thought all fiction had always been speculative.”

— Teri Louise Kelly

I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.

— Henning Mankell

I'm a big fan of non-fiction, and I am a believer that fact is much more exciting than fiction.

— Rob Van Dam

I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.

— Alex Flinn