Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.
Philip K. Dick
Related Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science... PHILIP K. DICK I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret At... CONOR OBERST I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought &... MATT GROENING Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the histo... RAY BRADBURY Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is ficti... JEAN M. AUEL I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers deal... WALTER MOSLEY In science fiction, basic doubts featured prominently in the worlds of Philip K. Dick. I knew Phil f... GREGORY BENFORD It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'... TERRY PRATCHETT Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind ... RAY BRADBURY NI love watching science fiction because I feel like when it's done well, it's not just mons... ALAN ARKIN I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction write... TAHMOH PENIKETT I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall ... LOIS LOWRY In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry. DAMON LINDELOF Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes. WILLIAM GIBSON Sometimes when we label something dystopian fiction, I feel like we're trying very hard not to u... PAOLO BACIGALUPI Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet. JACK MCDEVITT There's always been a little bit of tension between the writers of science fiction literature an... JOHN SCALZI I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its recor... WILLIAM GIBSON I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing ... WALTER MOSLEY Science fiction is what we point to when we say it. DAMON KNIGHT Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction. SAUL STEINBERG Personalization is everywhere. We are constantly asked, directly or indirectly, to create Our Own Wh... CASS SUNSTEIN There is something for everyone at our book sales. We usually have everything from science and scien... ESTHER BUCK Print science fiction writers often do consulting for government bodies. ROBERT J. SAWYER I really do like a really good science fiction movie and a really good horror movie. Those are the k... PAUL GIAMATTI I can list on one hand the famous science fiction writers I never met. ROBERT SILVERBERG I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science ... JOHN UPDIKE The 'science' in 'science fiction' isn't just physics and engineering. It can al... ANN LECKIE Science fiction is the WikiLeaks of science, getting word to the public about what cutting-edge rese... ROBERT J. SAWYER I've actually usually been wary of taking on science fiction as an actor because it's really... GRANT BOWLER I'm a science fiction author at heart, and what I like about the Cthulhu Mythos setting is that,... DAVID CONYERS Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the... PAMELA SARGENT We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go abou... KEVIN J. ANDERSON Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories abo... MICHIO KAKU Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive. URSULA K. LEGUIN Hijacking by pseudoscience and bad science fiction is a threat to our legitimate sense of wonder. RICHARD DAWKINS Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of s... RAY KURZWEIL You look at science fiction and look how often it talks about being alien, being alienated about the... NALO HOPKINSON 'Filk' is the folk music of the science fiction and fantasy community - you get parodies, yo... SEANAN MCGUIRE Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest sub... SUSAN SONTAG We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreat... JERRY POURNELLE Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevi... ISAAC ASIMOV Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevit... ISAAC ASIMOV My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real ... ELIZABETH MOON Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything. OCTAVIA E. BUTLER 'Farscape' is not what you call hard science fiction. BEN BROWDER The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeenth-century novels of exploration in fabulous ... PHILIP K. DICK A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which ... JAMAIS CASCIO It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everyth... MIKE LEE 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 Science fiction is a unique literature. Science fiction is the first literature that says, 'Tomo... DAVID GERROLD Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and come... GLORIA STEINEM We thought it best to go with science fiction because you can tweak reality and the audience can sus... CHRIS ROLAND You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap abo... IAIN BANKS If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a... TAD WILLIAMS I do enjoy reading some science fiction. COLIN FARRELL Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intrigui... ROGER EBERT I read a lot of science fiction and biography - these are my two favorite genres. My favorite scienc... BRAD FELD Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fic... RIDLEY SCOTT I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all. JACK VANCE All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fert... ALAN LIGHTMAN There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror... SETH GRAHAME-SMITH And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there'... OCTAVIA BUTLER Physics is often stranger than science fiction, and I think science fiction takes its cues from phys... MICHIO KAKU We can celebrate how far we've come from our sexist past when women and men are equally represen... ANNALEE NEWITZ Science fiction writers didn't predict the fade-out of NASA's manned space operations, and t... GREGORY BENFORD I can't recommend technical writing as a day job for fiction writers because it's going to b... TED CHIANG I feel like science fiction can get a bad rap sometimes because people make something just to throw ... DREW ROY My current project is science fiction, really ambitious I think. But again, it's a matter, to some e... POUL ANDERSON Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of... TED CHIANG The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers. SHERI S. TEPPER Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens. RUDY RUCKER Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophe... ISAAC ASIMOV Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophe... ISAAC ASIMOV Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophe... ISAAC ASIMOV It's really science fiction at its best. TRACY MCNAMARA The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by ... WILLIAM SHATNER There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. Bu... ARTHUR C. CLARKE One of the most interesting things about science fiction and fantasy is the way that the genres can ... TANSY RAYNER ROBERTS Art imitates life, but science fiction informs us about what form it will take. ALAN JOSHUA I was afraid that science-fiction buffs and everybody would say things like, 'You know, there... GEORGE LUCAS Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time. DORIS LESSING I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist. MICHIO KAKU Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothin... MICHIO KAKU Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literar... L. E. MODESITT, JR. I love science fiction. PAM GRIER I'm a huge science fiction fan. EMMA CAULFIELD I think that if there's one key insight science can bring to fiction, it's that fiction - th... CHARLES STROSS The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors. VERNOR VINGE I really strived to give equal weight to the two halves of my genre's name: science and fiction. ROBERT J. SAWYER Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere. OCTAVIA BUTLER Everything's science fiction until someone makes it science fact MARIE LU I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction... WILLIAM GIBSON Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - p... PAUL DAVIES Science fiction is not quirky anymore; we live in a futuristic world now. BONNIE HAMMER I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more ... GARDNER DOZOIS There were four major 20th-century science fiction writers: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A... ROBERT J. SAWYER Labels like 'Chinese Science Fiction' or 'Western Science Fiction' summarize a vast ... KEN LIU I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our ... KAGE BAKER It's horrid to be called a Shakespearean actor because that's incredibly limiting, and we lo... TIMOTHY DALTON
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