Science Fiction Quotes
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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
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
The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different.
— Neal Stephenson
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
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
No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?
— Robert J. Sawyer
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
The fact that the site of narrative is an ideal topos disqualifies neither pornography nor science fiction from being literature. Such
— Georges Bataille
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
