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TED CHIANG I can't recommend technical writing as a day job for fiction writers because it's going to b... TED CHIANG SUSAN SONTAG
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Science fiction is a unique literature. Science fiction is the first literature that says, 'Tomo... 
I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers deal... 
It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'... 
Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the histo... 
'Filk' is the folk music of the science fiction and fantasy community - you get parodies, yo... 
NI love watching science fiction because I feel like when it's done well, it's not just mons... 
I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed t... 
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Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is ficti... 
I think that prog rock is the science fiction of music. Science fiction speculates on what the futur... 
I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic. 
Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes. 
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A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which ... 
I'm frustrated with Hollywood and television and the movies because they see science fiction as ... 
'Who are we?' And to me that's the essential question that's always been in science ... 
And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there'... 
Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fic... 
I read a lot of science fiction and biography - these are my two favorite genres. My favorite scienc... 
Science fiction writers didn't predict the fade-out of NASA's manned space operations, and t... 
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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors. 
I can list on one hand the famous science fiction writers I never met. 
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It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction. 
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In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and... 
I'm not a fan of science fiction, personally, 
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevi... 
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevit... 
There's a science fiction project we really want to make, but it's very expensive. Hopefully... 
Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or so... 
Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to c... 
Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction. 
I think that if there's one key insight science can bring to fiction, it's that fiction - th... 
I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appeali... 
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. 
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Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time. 
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Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens. 
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Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. 
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. 
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I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm... 
Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa... 
How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. 
I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'... 
The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ... 
Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my... 
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When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent. 
My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers. 
I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop... 
I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Al... 
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ... 
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Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving. 
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. 
Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking. 
If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good. 
Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte... 
Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else. 
The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. 
I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i... 
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir... 
Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake? 
Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar. 
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Old friends are best. 
I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life. 
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. 
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. 
It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a ...