Consciousness Quote by Vernor Vinge

In 1955, when I'd write a science-fiction novel, I'd set it in the year 2000. I realised around 1977 that, 'My God, it's getting…

— Philip K. Dick

What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There…

— Camille Paglia

I came into science fiction at a very good time, when the doors were getting thrown open to all kinds of more experimental writing,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.

— Fred Saberhagen

Ours is the first generation that has grown up with science-fiction ideas.

— Carl Sagan

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

— J. G. Ballard

A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

— A. E. van Vogt

I think '60s are appealing to creative people, because it seemed to be a time of endless possibilities, when the boundaries of what could…

— Steven Soderbergh

I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like thats because technology has caught…

— Alaina Huffman

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

— Iain Banks

I read a great deal of science fiction with consummate pleasure between, say, the ages of 12 and 16. Then I got away from…

— William Gibson