Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.
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TRACY MCNAMARA 'Filk' is the folk music of the science fiction and fantasy community - you get parodies, yo...
SEANAN MCGUIRE I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON I like science fiction and I read it a lot - if I were a collector, I would bid for his works,
DAVID ANDERSON Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.
DAMON KNIGHT Everything's science fiction until someone makes it science fact
MARIE LU For me, 'Blade Runner' is the best science-fiction film ever made.
DUNCAN JONES Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.
PAUL DI FILIPPO We thought it best to go with science fiction because you can tweak reality and the audience can sus...
CHRIS ROLAND When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.
STEPHEN WRIGHT NI love watching science fiction because I feel like when it's done well, it's not just mons...
ALAN ARKIN I read a lot of science fiction, but I also mixed it up with a lot of other genres: crime, literary ...
ADAM CHRISTOPHER But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellec...
BILL NYE Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is ficti...
JEAN M. AUEL In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.
DAMON LINDELOF Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive.
URSULA K. LEGUIN When me and Greg go off, it's all about sex.
COLLEEN HASKELL Sometimes when we label something dystopian fiction, I feel like we're trying very hard not to u...
PAOLO BACIGALUPI Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction.
SAUL STEINBERG When I die, I'm gonna leave my body to science fiction.
STEVEN WRIGHT Hardware works best when it matters the least.
NORMAN RALPH AUGUSTINE Hardware works best when it matters the least.
NORMAN R. AUGUSTINE Hardware works best when it matters the least.
NORMAN AUGUSTINE I love science fiction.
PAM GRIER My personal mission statement is to combine the intimately human and the grandly cosmic. I like to t...
ROBERT J. SAWYER Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. Th...
DAVID BRIN A column really works best when you really have something to say about something. I haven't had a gr...
JOHN TIERNEY We're living in science fiction, but we don't realize it.
TERRY PRATCHETT I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers deal...
WALTER MOSLEY I don't read Science Fiction.
BRENT SPINER Science fiction has no ceiling.
WILLIAM DONELSON A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which ...
JAMAIS CASCIO We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreat...
JERRY POURNELLE I was hoping it would, you know, gross somewhere around $30 million or something, which is what most...
GEORGE LUCAS Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind ...
RAY BRADBURY You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap abo...
IAIN BANKS Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.
OCTAVIA BUTLER When I was a kid, I figured I would be a physicist when I grew up, and then I would write science fi...
TED CHIANG Mind is like a parachute, it works best when it’s open.
104INC Being the best at whatever talent you have, that's what stimulates life.
TOM LANDRY It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'...
TERRY PRATCHETT When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.
TERRY PRATCHETT I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing ...
WALTER MOSLEY I do enjoy reading some science fiction.
COLIN FARRELL If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a...
TAD WILLIAMS Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science...
PHILIP K. DICK Science fiction is a unique literature. Science fiction is the first literature that says, 'Tomo...
DAVID GERROLD I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
A. E. VAN VOGT Science Fiction: Any scientific acclaim that omits God.
JOHNNY HART Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.
ALFRED BESTER I'm not a fan of science fiction, personally,
LAKE BELL I'm a huge science fiction fan.
EMMA CAULFIELD The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeenth-century novels of exploration in fabulous ...
PHILIP K. DICK I'm very fired up about Greg beginning to get it. When Greg plays with confidence, he is a very good...
BILLY LANGE I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more ...
GARDNER DOZOIS Science fiction and fantasy feels like it's been ascending in the zeitgeist.
JOHN JOSEPH ADAMS Art imitates life, but science fiction informs us about what form it will take.
ALAN JOSHUA My parents are both huge science-fiction and fantasy fans - I was fed it.
CARRIE VAUGHN Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about sci...
PHILIP K. DICK I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science ...
JOHN UPDIKE Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.
STEVEN SPIELBERG I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.
DAVID HANSON By serializing two novels in 'Analog,' the world's No. 1, best-selling science fiction m...
ROBERT J. SAWYER Women are being welcomed into science fiction, but it's through the back door.
ANNALEE NEWITZ I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction write...
TAHMOH PENIKETT Physics is often stranger than science fiction, and I think science fiction takes its cues from phys...
MICHIO KAKU Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are di...
PAUL AMBROISE VALERY It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.
ISAAC ASIMOV One reader of an early draft of this chapter complained at this point, saying that by treating the h...
DANIEL C. DENNETT Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "make m...
SCOTT WESTERFELD Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the histo...
RAY BRADBURY The 'science' in 'science fiction' isn't just physics and engineering. It can al...
ANN LECKIE Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities.
MIRIAM ALLEN DE FORD Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.
WILLIAM HURT The ultimate aim of reality is to become science fiction!
ELI OF KITTIM Science fiction is for real, space opera is for fun.
BRIAN W. ALDISS Print science fiction writers often do consulting for government bodies.
ROBERT J. SAWYER Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER I think it has science-fiction elements, but I would say that overall it's a mystery.
SHAUN CASSIDY It [science fiction] really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations...
STEVEN SPIELBERG How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll l...
COLIN POWELL I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed t...
J. G. BALLARD When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapol...
PAOLO BACIGALUPI 'Who are we?' And to me that's the essential question that's always been in science ...
DAVID GERROLD Part of science is the questioning of authority, absolute freedom of ideology. The Soviets did some ...
GEORGE M. WHITESIDES What do people really care about his plan or something that was said in a debate? Let's get real her...
JON CORZINE What do people really care about his plan or something that was said in a debate? Let's get real her...
IVETTE MENDEZ In the best works of fiction, there's no mustache-twirling villain. I try to write shows where e...
LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.
ORHAN PAMUK Labels like 'Chinese Science Fiction' or 'Western Science Fiction' summarize a vast ...
KEN LIU There's always been a little bit of tension between the writers of science fiction literature an...
JOHN SCALZI Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
DORIS LESSING 'Farscape' is not what you call hard science fiction.
BEN BROWDER But when there's no hope to be found anywhere, even the tiniest chance is worth taking.
AMIE KAUFMAN I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought &...
MATT GROENING Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science.
JAMES INHOFE The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
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GREG MACGILLIVRAY Burger King's business model was broken. But it was like sex in the '50s. Everyone knew it, ...
GREG BRENNEMAN As first lady, Hillary Clinton spent the early months of her husband's administration drafting h...
GREG GRANDIN I got more out of the farm than Harvard Business School.
GREG BRENNEMAN Most songwriters who have been lucky enough to have their song on the radio or be heard widely don...
GREG GRAFFIN Continuous excellent effort, not maximum strength or superior IQ, is thekey to unlocking your potent...
GREG WERNER It took us two years to get our first real gig. That was a big dream. We ended up booking a lot of o...
GREG GINN I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.
GREG LOUGANIS Without U.S. input, the countries of South America joined forces in 2008 to shut down a coup attempt...
GREG GRANDIN There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.
GREG LEMOND