In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.
Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.'
I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.
Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Belt. Interstellar epics. Galactic empires. Trips to the remote past or future.
When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.
A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.
Because some of my at-home life was rough and lonely, I often looked to escape into my imagination. Science fiction provided a deep well to pull from and was something easily accessible to me.
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
I'm not opposed to doing science fiction or comedy, but there has to be respect. I refuse to be the joke, the fat woman joke, in any movie. I've turned down roles.
I think the type of actor I am, I tend to play strong leading female characters. The shows I've been on happen to be science fiction genre.
I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like that's because technology has caught up with us.
I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.
There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from.
I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood Still, which I consider to be the classic science fiction film.
That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.
Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story.
My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.
Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.
Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.
I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.
