Classic Quote by Lauren DeStefano

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even…

— Lauren Oliver

The future is always a dystopia in movies.

— Alex Cox

“He argued that science fiction, which once celebrated the future, has turned dystopian because people no longer have an optimistic view of technology’s ability…

— Ashlee Vance

I think dystopian futures are also a reflection of current fears.

— Lauren Oliver

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

The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I'm under no illusion that the future will be a neat and tidy or desirable world. We will gain a lot of things through…

— David Holmgren

“Sometimes people say that we're living in the future, and time's up for science fiction, but I think that never will be, because science…

— Stephen Baxter

We cannot create blueprint for future society, but it is good to think about that. It is good to have in mind a goal.…

— Howard Zinn

“The future we face at the dawn of the twenty-first century is, like all futures left to themselves, “emergent, complex messiness.” Its “messiness” lies…

— Virginia Postrel

“the future belongs to those societies that treat new ideas as delicate, fragile and immensely valuable pathways to the future.”

— Carl Sagan

The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present

— Terry Brooks