In science fiction, we're always searching for new frontiers. We're drawn to the unknown.
Science fiction is very healthy in its form.
When I die, I'm gonna leave my body to science fiction.
Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.
Acting in more science fiction films would be fine by me. I love doing them.
I like to write literature that reads like pulp fiction.
Fiction is dangerous because it lets you into other people's heads. It shows you that the world doesn't have to be like the one you live in." At the first nationally recognized science fiction convention in China in 2007, Gaiman took a party official...
As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science fiction readers, I am also, for good or ill, an American writing American literature to an American audience. Most fundamentally, though, I am a human ...
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 birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of ...
There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write fiction, I know that I'm using a bunch of lies that I've made up to create some form of truth. When I write a...
[T]he new weird represents a productive experiment in fantasy fiction. The New Wave of the 1960s and 1970s arguably embodied science fiction's claim to literary 'seriousness.' This desire for seriousness is not snobbery, as sometimes suggested by fol...
If there’s a zeppelin, it’s alternate history. If there’s a rocketship, it’s science fiction. If there are swords and/or horses, it’s fantasy. A book with swords and horses in it can be turned into science fiction by adding a rocketship to ...
All worlds of fiction are alternative realities.
Every science fiction is a reading of the period that produced it.
Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.
I will not be my father's dog.
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
All of my books are acts of subversion disguised as historical fiction.
Of course truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Since truth is often stranger than fiction, fiction needs to be pretty weird.
Before Truman, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.
