Political issues Quote by Robert J. Sawyer

There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“Fiction is usually seen as escapist entertainment...But it's hard to reconcile the escapist theory of fiction with the deep patterns we find in the…

— Jonathan Gottschall

Movies and novels, the two things that informed and taught me the most, are forms of escapism. I thought that was how life could…

— Jason Diamond

“Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate…

— Neil Gaiman

I wondered why people consider escapism so bad, even the escapism on display right then. At first it might appear unseemly, but in the…

— Anonymous

Science fiction still is an idea genre.

— Sheri S. Tepper

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

— Judith Merril

The great thing about science fiction is that it transcends national boundaries.

— Robert J. Sawyer

I think you can get away with being a bit more political in science fiction.

— Rupert Sanders

The general public still thinks that science fiction has nothing to do with their day-to-day lives.

— Robert J. Sawyer

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