All Quotes

Science fiction and fantasy feels like it's been ascending in the zeitgeist.
‐‐ John Joseph Adams

Science-fiction cities in general, I think, are so hard to get right, because it's so easy to just play some cheesy music or do something that takes you right out of it, but 'Blade Runner' got it right, and I love that about the film.
‐‐ Duncan Jones

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.
‐‐ Marion Zimmer Bradley

Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.
‐‐ Octavia E. Butler

Science fiction fans are awesome - they love you so much that they'll watch anything you do, even if it's complete crap. I never dreamed that I would go to conventions and sit down and have coffee with a Klingon. It's so weird, but it's my life.
‐‐ Katee Sackhoff

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
‐‐ Susan Sontag

Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
‐‐ Octavia E. Butler

Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.
‐‐ Brit Marling

Science fiction has always had a dark side. There has been a touch of the irrational and absurd in the genre from the very beginning.
‐‐ Douglas Lain

Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn't get too smart, because as soon as they get really smart, they're going to take over the world and kill us, or something like that. But why would they do that?
‐‐ Luis von Ahn

Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.
‐‐ Iain Banks

Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
‐‐ Paolo Bacigalupi

Science fiction has traditionally been economically naive, with a strong libertarian streak, which I think is like a crude Leninism. That's attractive because it could be used to explain everything, and if only we lived by its tenets, everything would be perfect.
‐‐ Charles Stross

Science fiction I've always been a fan of.
‐‐ Jason Statham

Science fiction in particular is often assumed to be about the future, or about some abstract technological or philosophical idea, or just about 'adventure,' but writers can't build worlds out of nothing. We use bits and pieces of the real world to assemble our fictional ones.
‐‐ Ann Leckie

Science fiction is a big, big love of mine. I would love to get into that at some point.
‐‐ James Wan

Science fiction is a literary field crowded with strong opinions, and no SF novelist delivered himself more memorably of his views - on politics, sexuality, religion, and many other contentious topics - than Robert Heinlein.
‐‐ Paul Di Filippo

Science fiction is a unique literature. Science fiction is the first literature that says, 'Tomorrow is going to be different than yesterday, it's going to be a lot different.'
‐‐ David Gerrold

Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.
‐‐ Nicolas Cage

Science fiction is about worlds you don't know and worlds you can create, like in 'Avatar'.
‐‐ Paul Verhoeven

Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms.
‐‐ Connie Willis

Science fiction is an extension of science.
‐‐ Len Wiseman

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.
‐‐ Ray Bradbury

Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.
‐‐ Anna Torv

Science fiction is exciting because it promises to show the world and the universe from perspectives radically unlike what we've seen before.
‐‐ Annalee Newitz

Science fiction is fantasy about issues of science. Science fiction is a subset of fantasy. Fantasy predated it by several millennia. The '30s to the '50s were the golden age of science fiction - this was because, to a large degree, it was at this point that technology and science had exposed its potential without revealing the limitations.
‐‐ Raymond E. Feist

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

Science fiction is huge and varied, and there's almost any sort of book or story you might imagine.
‐‐ Ann Leckie

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

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

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.
‐‐ Brian Aldiss

Science fiction is not formulaic.
‐‐ Octavia E. Butler

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

Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.
‐‐ Ray Kurzweil

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

Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
‐‐ Iain Banks

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.
‐‐ Robert Sheckley

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

Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.
‐‐ Octavia Butler

Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.
‐‐ Ken MacLeod

Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it is a scandal that in 1999 so many writers have written it and continue to write it in obscurity.
‐‐ John Clute

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
‐‐ Theodore Sturgeon

Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out there and digging amongst rocks and then trying to convince people that what you're seeing justifies the conclusions you're making.
‐‐ Kim Stanley Robinson

Science fiction still is an idea genre.
‐‐ Sheri S. Tepper

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.
‐‐ Denis Leary

Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it. So I don't think I could successfully pull off being on a project like that without really losing my mind.
‐‐ Denis Leary

Science fiction was rocket-mad for about 40 years until aerospace hit a brick wall about 1970. I would not write off space colonisation or exploration completely, but we are profoundly ill adapted for going boldly into outer space.
‐‐ Charles Stross

Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain.
‐‐ Julian May

Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.
‐‐ Michio Kaku