Definitions Quote by Norman Spinrad

Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.

— Norman Spinrad

Science fiction is not necessarily either fiction or anything to do with science.

— Judith Merril

I define science fiction as fiction in which things happen that are not possible today - that depend, for instance, on advanced space travel,…

— Margaret Atwood

Science fiction is what I point at when I say science fiction.

— Damon Knight

The brightest minds in our field have been trying to find a definition of science fiction for these past seventy years. The short answer…

— Larry Niven

Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused…

— Brian Aldiss

It's kind of a misnomer about science fiction that science fiction is about anything other than people. It's about people doing stuff, sometimes doing…

— Greg Bear

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the history of…

— Ray Bradbury

There is no such thing as science fiction, there is only science eventuality.

— Steven Spielberg

Science fiction is essentially a kind of fiction in which people learn more about how to live in the real world, visiting imaginary worlds…

— Brian Stableford

[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.

— Jack Williamson

I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public…

— Jean M. Auel