Change Quote by Stephen Baxter

“science fiction is not about the future but about the possibilities inherent in the present.”

— Judith B. Kerman

Science fiction doesn’t try to predict the future, but rather offers a significant distortion of the present…We sit around and look at what we…

— Samuel R. Delany

Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or…

— A. A. Gill

The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different.

— Neal Stephenson

Science fiction has never been about the future; it's always been about the present day whether it's Victorian England that Wells was writing about…

— Robert J. Sawyer

Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Most fiction says you may or may not be alive tomorrow; science fiction talks often about the future.

— Harlan Ellison

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

— Frank Herbert

“He argued that science fiction, which once celebrated the future, has turned dystopian because people no longer have an optimistic view of technology’s ability…

— Ashlee Vance

The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.

— William Gibson

“As with most of the future worlds in the science fiction, you are not talking about the future. You are talking about the present.…

— Alan Moore