Experimental Quote by Sarah Zettel

SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy and addictive; it's fun.…

— M. John Harrison

Not all SF or fantasy has to inspire new scientists and engineers.

— David Brin

I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent, the same as any…

— Stanley Schmidt

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

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

My gut feeling is that SF as we know it today is actually a heavily propagandized field that grew out of a specific set…

— Charles Stross

Science works as a way to make sense of life and the universe. Hard SF as my preferred fictional genre just feels natural.

— Edward M. Lerner

I was only eight when Sputnik was launched, and at that age the boundary between science and fiction is pretty blurry. Whichever way the…

— Edward M. Lerner

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

Practically all SF is trash.

— Stanislaw Lem

“For some the label sci-fi is just a shortand for science fiction, an alternative to sf gesturing at ... you know, that stuff we like.”

— Hal Duncan

I think sci-fi can easily be PG.

— Ridley Scott