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There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.
Allen Ginsberg
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There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.
Joanna Russ
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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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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
11.
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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Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.
Ray Bradbury
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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
23.
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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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
Jack Vance
25.
We need more science, but what we especially need is science fiction.
Dale Jamieson
27.
Science always interested me, and science, real science, was more science fiction than science fiction.
Lynn Hershman Leeson
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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
33.
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
34.
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
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Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.
Michael Dirda
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Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
Margaret Atwood
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What's great about science fiction is that it allows for surreal scenarios even if they pertain to the real world.
Larissa Sansour
41.
I read a lot and fell in love with comics and science fiction. I even self-published some of my comics when I was 16 or 17.
Toni Jerrman
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Science fiction is an extension of science.
Len Wiseman
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Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.
Terry Pratchett
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A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.
Jamais Cascio
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Science Fiction: Any scientific acclaim that omits God
Johnny Hart
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I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.
China Mieville
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Science fiction is a genre that no everyone is keen on watching.
Zoe Saldana
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Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.
Norman Spinrad
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I have always been intensely uncomfortable with the idea of a science fiction writer as prophet. Not that there haven't been science fiction writers who think of themselves as having some sort of prophetic role, but when I think of that, I always think of H.G. Wells - he would think of what was going to happen, and he would imagine how it would happen, and then he would create a fiction to illustrate the idea that he'd had. And no part of my process has ever resembled that at all.
William Gibson
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Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.
Greg Bear