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But the task of science fiction is not to predict the future. Rather, it contemplates possible futures. — Anonymous

Sustainability before ambition. Okal Rel. — Lynda Williams

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it — Warren Ellis

Book is a nice companion — Leo Tolstoy

Art sometimes imitates life. When it does, science fiction presages what form that life may take. — Alan Joshua

Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale. — Cory Doctorow

My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.' — Brian Aldiss

The science fiction author, H.G. Wells was an avid supporter of eugenics and a believer in a hierarchy of the races. — A.E. Samaan

I need to master the art of talking to her before I can even contemplate anything else. — Siobhan Davis

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. — Barney Oliver

It looked to her like an image out of a Steven Spielberg science fiction movie. — Stephen King

The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different. — Neal Stephenson

Acting in more science fiction films would be fine by me. I love doing them. — Sarah Douglas

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies. — Nicolas Cage

We were like wanderers in a desert, blessed with a rare downpour, but unable to store the rain. — Karen Thompson Walker

May the gods ignore you. — Lynda Williams

How many roads must a man walk down? — Douglas Adams

The runes moved under my fingers as the fabric of space split and fluctuated within the confines of the portal. — Charity Bradford

The only thing what happens in the Houses of Parliament is the debate about foxes, badgers and moles — Wayne Wignall

And who is to say the truth can't be a miracle? — Michelle Frost

It's always great when you want scientific fact to get a really good science fiction writer to talk to you about it. — Robin Williams

It's the first instance where I believe that it might actually be wrong, the first time I feel like a bit of a creep. — Siobhan Davis

Art imitates life, but science fiction informs us about what form it will take. — Alan Joshua

Don't go getting offended my friend, I have much worse things to say to you.-Ad'Dam, Journey from Atremes — Riley Amos Westbrook

First of all, you're dead. Secondly, I cut off your head. Thirdly... yes, I know that rhymed, you really don't have to tell me. — Gayle Ramage

It illuminated a vision Dante could not have imagined in his wildest nightmares, nor Poe in the grasp of an uncontrollable delirium. — Alan Dean Foster

Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future. — Hugo Gernsback

Open up your Mind Rockin' Minds to the Cold Hard Reality that is my Songs & Dreams. — Gemini Rising Rockin' Machine, The

Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy. — Jean M. Auel

No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules? — Robert J. Sawyer

The courier of wolves the daughter the dance.
Hopeless.
Betrayal.
Forbidden.
Departure. — C.J. Redwine

Fish and visitors stink after three days. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Maybe the Society was right all along. From the very beginning, that's what they called her. A time bomb.
Tick, tick, tick. — Laura Kreitzer

Science fiction is the agent provocateur of literature. — Dana Stabenow

We never leave a man behind and as Death Adders we always take care of our own. -Reilly Campbell — J.J. Snow

Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees. — Orson Scott Card

Like most science-fiction writers, he knew almost nothing about science. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler

It was the storm that would forever change the course of human destiny. — Jeff W. Horton

A paradox may be paradoctored. — Robert A. Heinlein

There was no sign of any life, just erratic hints of a faded sun peeking down with sorrow on the dead world it once nourished. — C.J. Anderson

What was I before the war? It's hard to remember that far back. But I think maybe I was human. — A.J. Vega

My first clue time travel could be possible was in the barber's chair the day before my girlfriend's funeral. — Timothy C. Ward

Whatever you do, don't make it worse by trying to come up with some flimsy excuse for why you were in the ventilation shaft, Lina told herself. — Jaleigh Johnson

Science Fiction is a branch of children's literature. — Thomas M. Disch

For me, a kitchen is like science fiction. I only go there to open the refrigerator and take something out. — Ann-Margret

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

I write science fiction for people who don't read a great deal of science fiction. — Bob Shaw

What an imprecise science was medicine. It was more an art than was fiction. — Graham Moore

I understand now that you cannot fight for a noble cause with heinous actions. — Andre Mikhailovich Solonitsyn

To be touched with love was a kind of miracle. — Hillary Jordan

To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Colonel Graff: We won! That's all that matters.
Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters. — Orson Scott Card

Science fiction is the very literature of change. — Frederik Pohl

The great thing about growing up with science fiction is that you have an interest in everything. — Ray Bradbury

We all have our own rhythms to walk to. — Lauren Lola

Resistance, however, is useless. (1939) — A.E. Van Vogt

Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock. — Alvin Toffler

The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate. — Paul Di Filippo

And there I was, a woman who yearned so hard for the sky there had to be stars in my blood, yet I was stuck in Heliodor City, missing it all. — Jacqueline Koyanagi

There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now. — Allen Ginsberg

If humanity is annihilated because we were too busy squabbling with one another to manage a proper stand, we probably deserve the annihilation. — G.S. Jennsen

I'm a huge science fiction fan. — Emma Caulfield

Arrogance and Conceit are the mother and father of a closed mind.
Charles Jennings, "Journey of the Chosen". — Richard Nance

First contact comes not by hand of man, but by metal of machine. — Ryan Sean O'Reilly

I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books. — Mark Haddon

Fred always goes with Daphne and Shaggy always sticks with Velma."
"Well then, in that case, I'm Scooby. — Peter Clines

I have been to the speed of God, sir ... and I discommend it. — John Ringo

I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science. — Barbara Kingsolver

They compose poems to their knives. — Frank Herbert

Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run. — Robert A. Heinlein

I tried to find something real in essentially something thats science fiction or something-for me, anyways-not having an experience like this. — Ryan Gosling

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens. — Iain Banks

Why do you love me?" His heart pounded faster. "Why?"
Simple answer: "Because without you, I'm not me. — Lynn Vroman

Where there is great love there is great harmony of thought. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

Be like the koru; as you go forward into the forever-changing future, always remain faithful to the point of origin. — Lauren Lola

Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty? — Isaac Asimov

I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole. — Robert Sheckley

Change your mind and change your whole life experience. — C.G. Rousing

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction. — Neil LaBute

Spader and I were nearly killed. Three times. We were also robbed and witnessed a gruesome murder. Happy birthday to me! — D.J. MacHale

Nothing is deader than yesterday's science-fiction - and Verne belongs to the day before yesterday. — Arthur C. Clarke

People who love science fiction really do love sex. — Susie Bright

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old. — A.E. Van Vogt

It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will. — Frank Herbert

When my stomach grumbled, I filled up on hamburgers, hot dogs, gyros, tacos, jerk chicken, pizza, and a side salad because I was watching my figure — Y.A. Marks

The fact that the site of narrative is an ideal topos disqualifies neither pornography nor science fiction from being literature. Such — Georges Bataille

The only thing altruism will get you here is a boot stomping on your head. — Henry Mosquera

The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion — Donna J. Haraway

This is more than an experience in the shadows of sleep. — Richard Bunning

It really wasn't my thing. It still isn't my thing, the whole science-fiction action thing. I prefer simpler, character-based movies. — Natalie Portman

The next time you need a piece of apparently obscure information, try asking a science fiction writer. You might be surprised. — Alastair Reynolds

I think science fiction is very bad at prediction. — China Mieville

Hey, when you love a woman, and when she's this crazy in love with you, you've got to do whatever she says, man. — Arby Robbins

Ax." Sadie is breathless as she caresses the angular lines of my face. "I love you so much. You're my whole world. You know that, right? — Siobhan Davis

Science fiction is an extension of science. — Len Wiseman

My mom introduced me to science-fiction. — Logan Marshall-Green

You say your ex-girlfriend left you for someone else. In other words, she found a brighter star in the sky. — Tony Sakalauskas

Living with you will be like
aiming for a moving target; you'll always be further along than I expect. — Ted Chiang

I like the Sci Fi channel and 'Science Fiction Theatre.' I've been doing a lot of television-watching and thinking about good songs to write. — Roky Erickson