Contemporary Quote by Warren Ellis

There's no such thing as the contemporary novel. Before I seem the complete reactionary, let me add that I've happily joined in many discussions…

— Graham Swift

I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall into the 'historic fiction' category. Science fiction…

— Lois Lowry

I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.

— Alex Flinn

Some critics said, 'Hey, why are you writing historical novels?' I say they're not historical, they're contemporary, because people walking around who lived through…

— Per Petterson

Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.

— Forest Whitaker

I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed through English literature, probably for 400…

— J. G. Ballard

Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism.

— David G. Hartwell

Science Fiction is the jazz of literature.

— David Brin

People like to complain about the state of contemporary literature, but I can only assume they don't read it very widely.

— Laura Miller

Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us.

— Isaac Asimov

Most contemporary fiction sucks. It's intellectually dishonest, often morally dishonest. It's cheap and easy. It pretends to be deep but is really quite shallow.

— Dale Peck

Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.

— Anna Torv