Kingsley Amis Quotes About Science Fiction

Quotes about: Science Fiction

• It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction.

  Kingsley Amis

  Women, Fiction, Theme

  Kingsley Amis (2011). “The King's English”, p.299, Penguin UK

• With some exceptions in science fiction and other genres I have small difficulty in avoiding anything that could be called American literature. I feel it is unnatural, not I think entirely because it uses a language that is not mine, however closely akin to my own.

  Kingsley Amis

  Thinking, Fiction, Use

• [Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but which is hypothesised on the basis of some innovation in science or technology, or pseudo-science or pseudo-technology, whether human or extra-terrestrial in origin. It is distinguished from pure fantasy by its need to achieve verisimilitude and win the 'willing suspension of disbelief' through scientific plausibility.

  Kingsley Amis

  Technology, Winning, Class

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