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

— Judith B. Kerman

“Sometimes people say that we're living in the future, and time's up for science fiction, but I think that never will be, because science…

— Stephen Baxter

“That's science fiction shit," "It's only fiction until science catches up.”

— J D Robb Fantasy in Death

“Science fiction is the fiction of ideas. Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next…

— Ray Bradbury

[A] science fiction story is one which presupposes a technology, or an effect of technology, or a disturbance in the natural order, such as…

— Edmund Crispin

“Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

There is no such thing as science fiction, there is only science eventuality.

— Steven Spielberg

“Accurate prediction of the future, of its technologies and traumas, has always seemed to me to be the least interesting thing about science fiction.…

— Michael Chabon

“The beauty of science fiction was that its authors never had to work out the logistics of how we would arrive in the future.…

— Emily Witt

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

— Theodore Sturgeon

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

— Frank Herbert

“Sometimes science fiction does become scientific discovery.”

— John Brockman