End time Quote by Orson Scott Card

Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.

— Margaret Atwood

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

— Teri Louise Kelly

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

“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

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

— Ted Chiang

Speculative fiction is where my heart lies. It's what I read growing up, and it's what I read as an adult.

— Patrick Rothfuss

“I like to think of weird fiction as an unceasing distortion and buckling of ambient space and time; where plot, theme, atmosphere and voice…

— Helen Marshall

I read and write speculative fiction because I want to go someplace really different.

— Kameron Hurley

“[T]he new weird represents a productive experiment in fantasy fiction. The New Wave of the 1960s and 1970s arguably embodied science fiction's claim to…

— Darja Malcolm-Clarke

The popularity of fantasy surpassing science fiction and the popularity of apocalyptic fiction, particularly for young adults, may indicate a desire to escape a…

— James Gunn

I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting…

— Fred Saberhagen

“Why might not the world WHICH CONCERNS US—be a fiction?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche