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Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.

— Michael Dirda

We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and analyze the…

— J. Michael Straczynski

Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together.

— Ray Bradbury

Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.

— Hugo Gernsback

Science fiction is an extension of science.

— Len Wiseman

I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.

— China Mieville

Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.

— Clifton Fadiman

“Science fiction inspires scientists, but it doesn't exist to dictate what our future should look like. Great science fiction is fun to read and…

— Daniel H. Wilson

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

— Frank Herbert

Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future.

— Bernard Werber

Science fiction is the branch of literature that deals with the effects of change on people in the real world as it can be…

— James Gunn

Science fiction always has had strains of pessimism and optimism weaving through its historical development, sometimes one dominating and then the other, usually depending…

— James Gunn