Quotes About Fiction

Science fiction is the only genre that enables African writers to envision a future from our African perspective.

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

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the science of how to get machines to do the things they do in the movies.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it

Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.

In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.

No matter what decade science fiction comes from, it's representing the present.

I think one of the reasons I love science fiction so much is that it's - when it's ideally done right, it's a reflection on ourselves.

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times.

The thin girl was gulping down one of Richard's bananas in what was, Richard reflected, the least erotic display of banana-eating he had ever seen.

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

Anyone can write a specification, but if nobody implements it, what is it but a particularly dry form of science fiction.

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

I'm sure there's an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer.

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

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.

Farscape is not what you call hard science fiction.

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.

Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.

Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.