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There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.
Allen Ginsberg
2.
There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.
Joanna Russ
3.
Science fiction is the only genre that enables African writers to envision a future from our African perspective.
Nnedi Okorafor
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He who controls the spice controls the universe.
Frank Herbert
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I'm a huge science fiction fan, and I'm a huge fan of J. Michael Straczynski.
Jamie Clayton
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Science fiction is what I point at when I say science fiction.
Damon Knight
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I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.
Frederik Pohl
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Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.
Ray Bradbury
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Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.
Arthur C. Clarke
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I'm sure there's an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer.
Neil Gaiman
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I was always attracted to science fiction movies
Tina Turner
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Science fiction is not necessarily either fiction or anything to do with science.
Judith Merril
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I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.
Yancy Butler
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You cannot create new science unless you realise where the old science leaves off and new science begins, and science fiction forces us to confront this.
Michio Kaku
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Fantasy deals with the immeasurable while science-fiction deals with the measurable.
Walter Wangerin
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I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.
Romola Garai
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Science fiction is the very literature of change.
Frederik Pohl
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I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane.
Alice Hoffman
22.
Farscape is not what you call hard science fiction.
Ben Browder
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I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction.
Richard Dawkins
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Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.
Greg Bear
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I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast.
Ivan Reitman
28.
To me, it's science fiction for me to do the things I've been blessed to do in this industry.
Will Smith
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Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be.
Orson Scott Card
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Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.
Denis Leary
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Science fiction is one of the smartest genres around because you have to have so much forethought.
Amanda Schull
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There is no such thing as science fiction, there is only science eventuality.
Steven Spielberg
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I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.
Theodore Sturgeon
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I've got to take a bit of a break from science fiction. As much as I've loved this stuff, I'm ready for a different century or a different time period as an actor, as an individual. Something that's, what's the word, something that's not involved with spaceships.
James Callis
37.
Science fiction and comedy are generally a pretty bumpy mix.
Matt Groening
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As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction.
Buzz Aldrin
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
Jack Vance
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If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a spaceship, you don't have to have someone thrown out an airlock.
Charlie Jane Anders
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Science always interested me, and science, real science, was more science fiction than science fiction.
Lynn Hershman Leeson
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We need more science, but what we especially need is science fiction.
Dale Jamieson
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The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.
Theodore Sturgeon
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Apparently I’ve been typecast in science fiction: I’m a Russian bisexual telepathic Jew.
Claudia Christian
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The success of a science fiction writer is if he can write a good read.
Arthur C. Clarke
49.
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
50.
I never wanted to be "a writer"; I only ever aspired to be an science fiction writer. They'll tear that badge out of my cold dead hands.
Alastair Reynolds