Science Fiction Quotes - Page 12

• Most people have made this mistake of thinking Middle-earth is a particular kind of earth or is another planet of the science fiction sort but it's just an old fashioned word for this world we live in, as imagined surrounded by the Ocean.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Mistake, Ocean, Thinking

  Source: www.tolkienlibrary.com

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• Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.

  Michio Kaku

  Sorcery, Heroism, Fiction

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. April 9, 2009.

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• There are plenty of characters of color in fantasy and science fiction. But when you ask the question, "How many of them on-screen have rich, thought-out backgrounds and family elements to draw on?," you quickly find out that the answer is not very many.

  Stephen H. Segal

  Character, Color, Fiction

  "The Wisdom of 'Geek Parenting'". Interview With Adrian Liang, www.amazonbookreview.com. April 28, 2016.

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• Fantasy and science fiction stories are very applicable to talking to your children about the world. They tend to talk about the big questions regarding life and the universe.

  Stephen H. Segal

  Children, Fiction Stories, Talking

  "The Wisdom of 'Geek Parenting'". Interview With Adrian Liang, www.amazonbookreview.com. April 28, 2016.

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• I really wish that peoplewould just say, 'Yes, it's a comic. Yes, this is fantasy. Yes, this is Science Fiction,' and defend the genre instead of saying, 'Horror is a bit passe so this is Dark Fantasy,' and that' s playing someone else's game. So that's why I say I'm a fantasy writer and to hell with 'It doesn't read like what I think of as a fantasy'. In that case what you think of as a fantasy is not a fantasy. Or there is more to it than you think.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dark, Thinking, Games

  Source: bobneilson.org

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• I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction.

  Richard Dawkins

  Fiction

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• In the 1950s, we had all these B-grade science-fiction movies. The point was to scare the public and get them to buy popcorn. No attempt was made to create movies that were somewhat inherent to the truth.

  Michio Kaku

  Scare, Popcorn, Fiction

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. April 9, 2009.

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• I'm not so fond of the sort of science fiction that isn't really science fiction but is sometimes thought to be - Gothic princesses and white horses and bats and castles and things.

  Richard Dawkins

  Horse, Princess, White

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• What writers of fantasy, science fiction, and much historical fiction do for a living is different from what writers of so-called literary or other kinds of fiction do. The name of the game in F/SF/HF is creating fictional worlds and then telling particular stories set in those worlds. If you're doing it right, then the reader, coming to the end of the story, will say, "Hey, wait a minute, there are so many other stories that could be told in this universe!" And that's how we get the sprawling, coherent fictional universes that fandom is all about.

  Neal Stephenson

  Games, Names, Creating

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Science fiction annoyed me because it was like, "Why is the world as it is not enough for you?"

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Annoyed, World, Fiction

  Interview with Malcolm Gladwell, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 13, 2017.

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• The religious paradigm and the science fiction paradigm are different. Apologies to science fiction fans, but the paradigm there is to create a new world and describe it with a kind of specificity that we describe the world we inhabit. Religiosity, on the other hand, does none of that.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Religious, Apology, Hands

  "Brit Marling". Interview with Malcolm Gladwell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 24, 2017.

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• The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.

  Octavia Butler

  Fiction, Way, Conditional

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• Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.

  Octavia Butler

  Looks, Fiction, Noses

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• I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.

  Moby

  Fiction, Scientist, Obsessed

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• There is a document in every novel in the world. Even in the most fantastic novel, even in science fiction, there is a documentary side. But, this side is not the crux of the matter.

  Amos Oz

  Fiction, World, Matter

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.

  Octavia Butler

  Reading, Writing, Fiction

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• When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?

  Bill Nye

  Travel, Shadow, Fiction

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• And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.

  Octavia Butler

  Fiction, Way, Fantasy

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• I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale. And you know, so much of science fiction has to do with predicting what’s to come, so I think that’s really interesting.

  Conor Oberst

  Thinking, Interesting, Fiction

  "Ben Gibbard’s Seventh-Album Stretch". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 13, 2011.

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• Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.

  George R. R. Martin

  Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery

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• I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.

  Octavia Butler

  Wall, Fiction, Hem

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• I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

  Nicolas Cage

  Avant Garde, Fiction, Fantasy

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• Science fiction went through a period that was mostly object-oriented or inventions for distant galaxies.But when we cracked the genetic DNA code, opened the big Pandora's box, and it really did become possible to produce chimeras, my ears shot up.

  Margaret Atwood

  Dna, Ears, Pandora's Box

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• I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Jobs, Writing, Fiction

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• I would love to take control of the entire universe and for five years you give every movie the same widespread distribution no matter what movie and see if there's a real discrepancy between people coming to see science-fiction films or superhero films. I seriously bet there would be no discernible difference.

  Kenneth Lonergan

  Real, Years, Discrepancies Between

  "When the world feels dangerous, films showing the human experience are key, directors say". Interview with Mark Olsen and Yvonne Villarreal, www.latimes.com. January 5, 2017.

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