Science Fiction famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.
-- Allen Ginsberg -
Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
Farscape is not what you call hard science fiction.
-- Ben Browder -
I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.
-- China Mieville -
I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.
-- China Mieville -
Apparently I’ve been typecast in science fiction: I’m a Russian bisexual telepathic Jew.
-- Claudia Christian -
Science fiction is what I point at when I say science fiction.
-- Damon Knight -
Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.
-- Denis Leary -
He who controls the spice controls the universe.
-- Frank Herbert -
It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.
-- Frederik Pohl -
I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.
-- Frederik Pohl -
Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.
-- Greg Bear -
Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.
-- Hugo Gernsback -
[O]ur statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.
-- Isaac Asimov -
I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast.
-- Ivan Reitman -
I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
-- Jack Vance -
I'm a huge science fiction fan, and I'm a huge fan of J. Michael Straczynski.
-- Jamie Clayton -
There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.
-- Joanna Russ -
Science fiction is not necessarily either fiction or anything to do with science.
-- Judith Merril -
If you take the shackles off your imagination, you can go anywhere with science fiction.
-- Lani Tupu -
My mom introduced me to science-fiction.
-- Logan Marshall-Green -
I'm a big fan of science fiction, animation, and things of that nature. Other worlds and that type of stuff.
-- Lupe Fiasco -
Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
-- Margaret Atwood -
I've always been interested in science fiction
-- Martin Landau -
I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.
-- Matthew Tobin Anderson -
Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.
-- Michael Dirda -
Science fiction is the only genre that enables African writers to envision a future from our African perspective.
-- Nnedi Okorafor -
Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.
-- Norman Spinrad -
There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.'
-- Norman Spinrad -
Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.
-- Ray Bradbury -
The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened.
-- Ray Bradbury -
I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.
-- Robert Sheckley -
I tried to find something real in essentially something thats science fiction or something-for me, anyways-not having an experience like this.
-- Ryan Gosling -
The best Science Fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.
-- Theodore Sturgeon -
Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.
-- Theodore Sturgeon -
I was always attracted to science fiction movies
-- Tina Turner -
Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.
-- Ursula K. Le Guin -
Fantasy deals with the immeasurable while science-fiction deals with the measurable.
-- Walter Wangerin -
If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it
-- Warren Ellis -
I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.
-- William Hurt -
I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.
-- Yancy Butler -
Science fiction is a genre that no everyone is keen on watching.
-- Zoe Saldana -
We need more science, but what we especially need is science fiction.
-- Dale Jamieson -
Science Fiction: Any scientific acclaim that omits God
-- Johnny Hart -
What's great about science fiction is that it allows for surreal scenarios even if they pertain to the real world.
-- Larissa Sansour -
Science always interested me, and science, real science, was more science fiction than science fiction.
-- Lynn Hershman Leeson -
I read a lot and fell in love with comics and science fiction. I even self-published some of my comics when I was 16 or 17.
-- Toni Jerrman -
If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a spaceship, you don't have to have someone thrown out an airlock.
-- Charlie Jane Anders -
I've got to take a bit of a break from science fiction. As much as I've loved this stuff, I'm ready for a different century or a different time period as an actor, as an individual. Something that's, what's the word, something that's not involved with spaceships.
-- James Callis
