Ideas Quote by Orson Scott Card

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

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

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

— Iain Banks

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

— Toba Beta

“...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

I especially love right-now sci-fi: stuff that happens in current time but incorporates a scientific breakthrough that is currently being explored.

— Brad Feld

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

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

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

Science fiction is not quirky anymore; we live in a futuristic world now.

— Bonnie Hammer

What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies…

— Olga Kurylenko

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