Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience. Joss Whedon blenderexperiencefiction Change image and share on social
Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future. Bernard Werber fictionfutureimagination Change image and share on social
Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts. Brian Aldiss fictionghostscience Change image and share on social
Science fiction is not formulaic. Octavia E. Butler fictionformulaicscience Change image and share on social
Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics. Jean M. Auel archaeologyastronomybase share on social
Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios. Ray Kurzweil fictionfuturistgive Change image and share on social
Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on. R. A. Salvatore fantasyfictionliterature Change image and share on social
Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities. Iain Banks alternativefictionfind Change image and share on social
Science fiction is very healthy in its form. Robert Sheckley fictionformhealthy Change image and share on social
Science fiction isn't just thinking about the world out there. It's also thinking about how that world might be - a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they're going to change the world we live in, they - and all of us - have to be able to think about a world that works differently. Samuel R. Delany changedifferentlyexercise share on social