Quotes About Fiction

So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind talking about science fiction. It has a real role to play: to seize the imagination.

The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.

Science fiction shows are traditionally about the gimmick or the gadget and tend to be emotionally cool to the touch.

Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.

Counterfeit Kings is the King Lear of space operas. Science fiction has a fresh, new, no-nonsense voice and his name is Adam Connell.

the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of science.

Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science.

Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge.

It's kind of a misnomer about science fiction that science fiction is about anything other than people. It's about people doing stuff, sometimes doing extraordinary stuff.

Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in the way of answers.

My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.

True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The final frontier is just science fiction--don't believe it. Like the universe, there is no end.

When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands on.

Steampunk is Victorian science fiction

To talk of diseases is a sort of Arabian Nights entertainment.

When superstitions enter the world of imagination, then intelligence and science become fiction.

Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities.

Science fiction is when we see into the future of our planet, fantasy is when we believe humanity will survive.

Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle science fiction.

Mary Shelley may well have invented science fiction. I think she did! But after that it seemed to be a boys' game.

Once it gets off the ground into space, all science fiction is fantasy.

Take a scientific fact or theory, add a futuristic or other-worldly setting, stir in an imaginative plot and fascinating characters, and a science fiction novel emerges from the cosmic mix.

It's Halloween, you can tell everyone you're going as your favorite Steampunck character.""I don't even know what that is!""Because your generation has no taste in speculative science fiction.

Fiction is the evidence that reality exists