Orson Scott Card Quotes About Science Fiction

Quotes about: Science Fiction

• Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

  Orson Scott Card

  Tree, Fiction, Fantasy

• A rustic setting always suggests fantasy; to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets.

  Orson Scott Card

  Needs, Fiction, Fantasy

  Orson Scott Card (2001). “How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy”, p.4, Writer's Digest Books

• In a way, being a Mormon prepares you to deal with science fiction, because we live simultaneously in two very different cultures. The result is that we all know what it's like to be strangers in a strange land. It's not just a coincidence that there are so many effective Mormon science fiction writers. We don't regard being an alien as an alien experience. But it also means that we're not surprised when people don't understand what we're saying or what we think.

  Orson Scott Card

  Mean, Science, Technology

  "Orson Scott Card talks Ender's game in rare interview". Interview with Shane Snow, www.wired.com. October 31, 2013.

• ...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience. I hope you're right, because in many ways this is the best audience in the world to write for. They're open-minded and intelligent. They want to think as well as feel, understand as well as dream. Above all, they want to be led into places that no one has ever visited before. It's a privilege to tell stories to these readers, and an honour when they applaud the tale you tell.

  Orson Scott Card

  Dream, Believe, Writing

• Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be.

  Orson Scott Card

  Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction

  Orson Scott Card (2001). “How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy”, p.22, Writer's Digest Books

• The difference between science fiction and fantasy … is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees.

  Orson Scott Card

  Differences, Tree, Fiction

• At some point, every science fiction and fantasy story must challenge the reader's experience and learning. That's much of the reason why the genre is so open to experimentation and innovation that other genres reject--strangeness is our bread and butter. Spread it thick or slice it thin, it's still our staff of life.

  Orson Scott Card

  Genre Is, Challenges, Innovation

  Orson Scott Card, Terry Brooks (2010). “The Writer's Digest Guide to Science Fiction & Fantasy”, p.21, Writer's Digest Books

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