Fiction Quote by Teri Louise Kelly

“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 about using speculative scenarios as a lens to examine the human condition.”

— Ted Chiang

“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

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

— Margaret Atwood

I write speculative fiction, and in my view, speculative fiction is really just a very intense version of the work of literature in general.

— Ken Liu

Speculative fiction is where my heart lies. It's what I read growing up, and it's what I read as an adult.

— Patrick Rothfuss

“But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction. If the general…

— David Eddings

“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

“The past is fantasy, and the future is science fiction.”

— T.L. Rese

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

— Theodore Sturgeon

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

— Judith B. Kerman

I've loved sci-fi and speculative fiction since I was a kid. It was inevitable I'd try my hand at it at some point.

— Rick Yancey