Human condition Quote by Ted Chiang

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

— Margaret Atwood

“Speculative fiction by definition is geared toward an audience that wants strangeness, an audience that wants to spend time in worlds that absolutely are…

— Orson Scott Card

Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.

— Ray Kurzweil

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

— Teri Louise Kelly

I think that if there's one key insight science can bring to fiction, it's that fiction - the study of the human condition -…

— Charles Stross

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

— Judith B. Kerman

“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

“People think--wrongly--that speculative fiction is about predicting the future, but it isn’t; or if it is, it tends to do a rotten job of…

— Neil Gaiman

“Science fiction and fantasy, though they seem to be about the future or fictional worlds, are always at their core really about the problems…

— John Joseph Adams

Science fiction is the field that explores how change can affect us, for well or ill.

— David Brin

[Science fiction is] the attempt to deal rationally with alternate possibilities in a manner which will be entertaining.

— Lester del Rey

“We are now in a position to determine just what sort of science fiction story this really is.”

— Theodore Sturgeon