Science Fiction Quotes

War has always been a part of science fiction. Even before the birth of SF as a standalone genre in 1926, speculative novels such as 'The Battle of Dorking' from 1871 showed how SF's trademark 'what if' scenarios could easily encompass warfare.

Paul Di Filippo

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A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.

Jamais Cascio

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Technological prescience in science fiction usually requires an author with luck. Societal prescience requires a poet.

Heidi Hammel

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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

Vernor Vinge

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I love science fiction.

Pam Grier

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Science fiction is not formulaic.

Octavia E. Butler

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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

Jack Vance

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I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.

Gail Carriger

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For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.

C. J. Cherryh

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Novels written by university professors and set in the groves of academe are far more rigidly predictable than anything but the most routine science fiction novel, but they have escaped the stigma of being labeled as genre.

John Clute

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I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way.

Robert Sheckley

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One of the standard story-generating engines for science fiction is to take something we normally think of as metaphoric and treat it as if it were literal.

Robert J. Sawyer

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It seems like there's a real appetite for science fiction in the States.

Matt Smith

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The '70s was a decade that was crammed with prominent women science fiction writers, and a lot of women made their debut in that decade or really came to prominence.

Ann Leckie

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Science fiction is something I never understood.

John Waters

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Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.

Tony Visconti

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It's often better to read first-rate science fiction than second-rate science - it's far more stimulating, and perhaps no more likely to be wrong.

Martin Rees

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I'm a science fiction geek from birth - that's just who I am.

Joss Whedon

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Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.

China Mieville

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

Brian Aldiss

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With science fiction there's endless possibilities.

Anna Torv

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Science fiction was one of those places, particularly during the McCarthy era, where you could write whatever you wanted because it was beneath contempt. They didn't bother censoring it.

William Gibson

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I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.

Rick Baker

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I love the fact that it's not only about Star Trek, but about science fiction in general, and science.

Rene Auberjonois

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