Bothered Quote by William Gibson

Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization…

— Ray Bradbury

Science fiction is where I started out, really. When I was a kid, I was a complete addict of science fiction. It was one…

— Salman Rushdie

A lot of people forget that the origin of science fiction in the U.S. was in the post-First World War period when there was…

— Robert J. Sawyer

I read a lot of science fiction, and it's ingrained, in a certain way, and I've been very involved with Kerouac and the Beats,…

— Lee Ranaldo

Science fiction is a weird category, because it's the only area of fiction I can think of where the story is not of primary…

— Donald E. Westlake

We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and analyze the…

— J. Michael Straczynski

I grew up reading science fiction.

— Jeff Bezos

Even though I knew pretty early that I was going to be a scientist, it wasn't the science that interested me in science fiction;…

— Steven Weinberg

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is…

— Philip K. Dick

After the founding of the People's Republic in 1949, science fiction became a tool for popularizing scientific knowledge, and its main intended readers were children.

— Liu Cixin

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 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