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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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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
19.
Farscape is not what you call hard science fiction.
Ben Browder
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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
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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 fantasy with bolts painted on outside.
Terry Pratchett
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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 is a genre that no everyone is keen on watching.
Zoe Saldana
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Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.
Greg Bear
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I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction.
Richard Dawkins
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I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast.
Ivan Reitman
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Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.
Denis Leary
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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 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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As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction.
Buzz Aldrin
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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
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Science fiction and comedy are generally a pretty bumpy mix.
Matt Groening
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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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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
Jack Vance
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We need more science, but what we especially need is science fiction.
Dale Jamieson
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Science always interested me, and science, real science, was more science fiction than science fiction.
Lynn Hershman Leeson