Could Quote by Margaret Atwood

“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

“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 write speculative fiction, and in my view, speculative fiction is really just a very intense version of the work of literature in general.

— Ken Liu

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

— Ted Chiang

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

[Science fiction is] the attempt to deal rationally with alternate possibilities in a manner which will be entertaining.

— Lester del Rey

“People think--wrongly--that speculative fiction is about predicting the future, but it isn’t; or if it is, it tends to do a rotten job of…

— Neil Gaiman

Sci-fi is often a metaphor. I think it's more the themes and questions that science fiction raises rather than the exact predictions that should…

— Peter Singer

Sci-fi and horror, particularly, allow a storyteller to depart from, let's say, the demands of cinema verite or kitchen-sink realism or, even, just relatable…

— Karyn Kusama

Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along…

— Nicolas Cage

Sci-fi is speculative fiction. 'Field of Dreams' is sci-fi.

— Bonnie Hammer

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

— Teri Louise Kelly