Everything Quote by Orson Scott Card

I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

— Orson Scott Card

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.

— Iain Banks

Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new…

— Connie Willis

I think it's too fast to say that all sci-fi ultimately winds up having some place in science. On the other hand, imaginative minds…

— Brian Greene

“Sci-fi opens the way in mind for the new science.”

— Toba Beta

A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it…

— Frederik Pohl

“...hence the very best science fiction ultimately winds up being a collaboration between author and reader, in which both create - and enjoy it;…

— Philip K Dick

A lot of people forget that the origin of science fiction in the U.S. was in the post-First World War period when there was…

— Robert J. Sawyer

The great thing about sci-fi is that the fans and the audience are unlike any other genre out there. They are constantly looking for…

— Mike Vogel

That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change.…

— Frederik Pohl

Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book is not…

— Janet Morris

Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it…

— John Clute