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Science works as a way to make sense of life and the universe. Hard SF as my preferred fictional genre just feels natural.
— Edward M. Lerner
I am a woman. I write SF. And it's not acceptable to treat me as anything less than an equal. I won't stand for it.
— Ann Aguirre
Answer me immediately or I'll start cutting away everything that's pretty on you ... and then put it back.
— Richard Finney
When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing.
— George Stephen
Peter Watts delivers-solid, inventive hard sf about the deep sea, but as we've never seen before. This moves like the wind.
— Gregory Benford
A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.
— Alastair Reynolds
An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.
— Walter Jon Williams
Step up to red alert."
Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb."
- Rimmer & Kryten, "Red Dwarf — Rob Grant
Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb."
- Rimmer & Kryten, "Red Dwarf — Rob Grant
One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
— Jack McDevitt
Practically all SF is trash.
— Stanislaw Lem
I put tape on the mirrors in my house so I don't accidentally walk through into another dimension.
— Steven Wright
SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.
— Piers Anthony
There's no possibility that foresight work will ruin my creativity. It goes to a different area than the creative wellspring of SF.
— Karl Schroeder
Science Fiction has always attracted more talented writers than it could reward adequately.
— Walter M. Miller Jr.
From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer.
— Samuel R. Delany
I'm a geek. I love SF and fantasy. I listen to metal. I follow the Oakland Raiders and the Orlando Magic.
— John Joseph Adams
For many readers, writers, editors and agents ... pretty much the working (in)definition: SF is short for So Fuck?
— Hal Duncan
The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist.
— Bruce Boxleitner
It's
my God
like you stretched a tarp across a stadium to turn it into a giant tom-tom and crashed a 747 into it. — Neal Stephenson
my God
like you stretched a tarp across a stadium to turn it into a giant tom-tom and crashed a 747 into it. — Neal Stephenson
I know this hasn't been a seamless narrative. I've had to shatter the story and string its fragments out along a death lasting decades.
— Peter Watts
For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.
— Walter Jon Williams
I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign.
— William Gibson
AI will begin as Artificial Idiocy. Who cares if a computer can play chess or take control of cyberspace? Can it trash Tokyo, huh, huh?
— Hal Duncan
Ray Bradbury's entire oeuvre exemplifies the crumbling of SCIENCE FICTION into the open interplay of science fiction, fantasy and horror.
— Hal Duncan
I grew up reading SF in the '70s and '80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds.
— Kim Harrison
[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!
— Terry Pratchett
For some the label sci-fi is just a shortand for science fiction, an alternative to sf gesturing at ... you know, that stuff we like.
— Hal Duncan
Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.
— Paul Di Filippo
Trust me, I'm an SF medic.
This won't hurt ... me.
'You?'
I'm not so sure, it'll probably hurt a lot. — Jose N. Harris
This won't hurt ... me.
'You?'
I'm not so sure, it'll probably hurt a lot. — Jose N. Harris
If you can read the book and say, 'Space Marines, YEEEAAAHHH!' That's Military Science Fiction." (Brigham Young writing lecture, March 2012)
— Brandon Sanderson
The Gang of Four may have run multiple systems on a single motherboard, but each had its own distinct topology and they only surfaced one at a time.
— Peter Watts
Socialism and SF are the two most fundamental influences in my life.
— China Mieville
What SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one.
— Edward M. Lerner
My personal belief is that attraction to SF/F is coded right into your genes. I was attracted to monsters and robots as far back as I can remember.
— Will McIntosh
In role-playing games, SF and fantasy have exploded into psychotherapy.
— Brian W. Aldiss
I was twelve when I read my first sf magazine
— Philip K. Dick
I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent, the same as any other fashion.
— Stanley Schmidt
What kind of hard SF do I write? Everything from near-future, Earth-centric techno-thrillers to far-future, far-flung interstellar epics.
— Edward M. Lerner
Brain out, sponge in' fiction.
— Hal Duncan
I had a respected SF writer call me 'girlie' and demand that I get him a coffee, before the panel we were on together.
— Ann Aguirre
I'm told my SF is of the hard variety and my Fantasy is romantic but hopefully all the characters are strong and the plots are lively.
— Sarah Zettel
One can revise the rules, shift the goal posts, but to do so is just to conjure a chimera and mask it as a novum.
— Hal Duncan
I feel SF is going through an experimental phase right now.
— Sarah Zettel
As a woman writing SF, I felt I had to think and write like a man in order to be taken seriously.
— Heidi Ruby Miller
The SF [Supreme Fascist, i.e. God] created us to enjoy our suffering. The sooner we die, the sooner we defy His plans.
— Paul Erdos