Quotes of: Science-fiction Keyword

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 po...

Raymond E. Feist

I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction. I like science fiction where there's a scientific lesson, for example - when the science fiction book changes one thing but leaves the rest of science intact and explores the consequences of t...

Richard Dawkins

Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.

William Gibson

I had decided after 'Hollow Man' to stay away from science fiction. I felt I had done so much science fiction. Four of the six movies I made in Hollywood are science-fiction oriented, and even 'Basic Instinct' is kind of science fiction.

Paul Verhoeven

I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.

Romola Garai

In 's ... it was in that novel that, for the first time, I learned Neptune had a satellite named Triton... It was from that I first learned there was a Mato Grosso area in the Amazon basin. It was from and other stories by that I first heard of relat...

Before the Golden Age: A Science Fiction Anthology of the 1930s

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.

Frederik Pohl

Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.

How To Write Science Fiction

In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

Damon Lindelof

That's science fiction shit," "It's only fiction until science catches up.

J D Robb Fantasy in Death

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

Jack Vance

Despite what your science fiction writers dream, we simply don't have the technology

The Host

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.

Octavia Butler

I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.

Walter Mosley

'Filk' is the folk music of the science fiction and fantasy community - you get parodies, you get traditional music that's had the words slightly modified, and you'll also get just original works that have been written about science fiction and fanta...

Seanan McGuire

What we've done is make the categories of science fiction and fantasy larger, freer, and more inclusive than any other genre of contemporary literature. We have room for everybody, and we are extraordinarily open to genuine experimentation.

How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy

I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William Gibson is one of my favorite writers.

Tahmoh Penikett

There's always been a little bit of tension between the writers of science fiction literature and then science-fiction televised shows or movies, partly because they have a different dynamic.

John Scalzi

When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written.

William Gibson

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 tha...

Jean M. Auel

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist.

Michio Kaku