Quotes About Science fiction

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.

Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know.

Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there's nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what it is, as well as searching for metaphor.

Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

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

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.

I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.

Wrote a science fiction novel about a man who wins an argument with his wife, but it was rejected for being too farfetched.

If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake.

It does sound like a science fiction story and I may sound like one of these guys who walks up and down with a sandwich board saying the end of the world is nigh, but the end is nigh.

When I write my books, actually I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction.

It's one of those things that if I was smart enough to explain it in words, I wouldn't have had to make a movie "World Of Tomorrow" out of it. It's a love letter to science fiction.

Anybody who grew up with the space program is a fan of science fiction.

Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.

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

There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.

In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.

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.

In fantasy, impossible things exist. In science fiction, impossible things exist and can be understood by humans. In supernatural horror, impossible things exist and cannot live in peace with humans.