Quotes About Science fiction

I loved 'District 9.'

Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing.

I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories.

Technological prescience in science fiction usually requires an author with luck. Societal prescience requires a poet.

While the emphasis on effects became a catastrophe for science fiction, it was a relief for the capitalist culture of which 'Star Wars' became a symbol. Late capitalism can't produce many new ideas any more, but it can reliably deliver technological upgrades. But 'Star Wars' didn't really belong to the science fiction genre any way.

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.

Traditionally, the science fiction reader has been the 16- to 24-year-old male, especially the male with an interest in technology.

Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years with 110 different stories told within it.

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

Perhaps Nansen, or at least the name of his ship, owed something to Verne as well. Jules Verne, the great French pioneer of science fiction, had also shown interest in the Arctic. Some thirty years earlier, he had published The English at the North Pole, in which there figured an expedition ship called Forward – of which Fram, naturally, was the Norwegian equivalent.

Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny. Inventing plausible new realities is what the genre is all about. One starts from a hypothesis and then builds out the logic, adding detail and incident to give substance to imaginary structures. In that respect, science fiction and theology have much in common.

Near Shepherd's Bush two thousand Beta-Minus mixed doubles were playing Riemann-surface tennis.

Hard science fiction. Mind-blowing, breathtaking, hard science fiction.

Growing up," he said, "my favorite author was Isaac Asimov, the science fiction writer. Have any of you ever read the short story The Last Answer?" There

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Robert Sawyer, James Gunn, Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, David Brin, Joe Haldeman, Ben Bova, and Alan Dean Foster.

Isaac Asimov, the science fiction writer. Have any of you ever read the short story The Last Answer?

The scenario you just experienced was borrowed from a very old science fiction story," replied Dr. Brennan. "The Cold Equations by Tom Godwin. Relatively short, but considered a classic. Different

Given the issues with certain SF/F trophies (like the World Fantasy Award, which is 1) butt-ugly and 2) based on one disgustingly racist dude), all trophies from this point forward should be made out of LEGO. That way if you don't like it, you can just make it into something else.

Most Krakau massed less than the average human. They were roughly tube-shaped, with nine tentacles—arms—limbs?

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

In a science fiction novel, the world is a character, and often the most important character. In a mainstream novel, the world is implicitly our world, and the characters are the world.

Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.