Science Fiction Quotes - Page 17

• I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William Gibson is one of my favorite writers.

  Tahmoh Penikett

  Kids, Fiction, My Favorite

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• Science fiction fans are awesome, they love you so much that they'll watch anything you do, even if it's complete crap. I never dreamed that I would go to conventions and sit down and have coffee with a Klingon. It's so weird, but it's my life.

  Katee Sackhoff

  Coffee, Love You, Fans

  "Starbuck Speaks". Eric Gillin, www.esquire.com. June 28, 2007.

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• [T]he one indispensable ingredient of science fiction [is] a belief in a world being changed by man's intellect, a conviction that what was being written could really happen.

  James Gunn

  Men, Fiction, World

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• In science fiction a fantastic event or development is considered rationally.

  James Gunn

  Events, Fiction, Development

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• With science fiction there's endless possibilities.

  Anna Torv

  Fiction, Possibility, Endless Possibilities

  "‘Fringe’ Friday: Chatting with Saturn Award winner Anna Torv". Interview with Andrew Hanson, latimesblogs.latimes.com. June 24, 2011.

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• I never think about genre when I work. I've written fantasy, science fiction, supernatural fiction, and am now working on a suspense novel. Genres are mostly useful as a marketing tool, and to help booksellers known where to shelve a book.

  Elizabeth Hand

  Book, Thinking, Suspense Novels

  On "Mortal Love" at HarperCollins, 2004.

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• I don't think of myself as being particulary a subversive writer, but I like to think that my work could afford someone else, the extra degree of freedom that I found when I first found science fiction.

  William Gibson

  Thinking, Degrees, Fiction

  Interview with Eric Holstein and Raoul Abdaloff, www.actusf.com. March 2008.

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• I read mostly science-fiction and fantasy when I was a teenager, and I was always drawn to stories where the characters had telepathic powers.

  Ruth Glick

  Teenager, Character, Fiction

  "'Dark Powers' Author Rebecca York". Interview with Joyce Lamb, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. October 21, 2012.

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• Peter Watts has taken the core myths of the First Contact story and shaken them to pieces. The result is a shocking and mesmerizing performance, a tour-de-force of provocative and often alarming ideas. It is a rare novel that has the potential to set science fiction on an entirely new course. Blindsight is such a book.

  Karl Schroeder

  Book, Taken, Ideas

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• Historically, I guess that's how science fiction works: you start by using aliens to think the unthinkable — and then, eventually, another writer, having grown a little more comfortable with the earlier notion, brings it into the human.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Thinking, Fiction, Littles

  "Space Cowboy: An Interview with Samuel R. Delany". Interview with Scott Westerfeld, www.nerve.com. 2001.

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• My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading that interests them, to expand the definition of reading to include humor, science fiction/fantasy, nonfiction, graphic novels, wordless books, audio books and comic books.

  Jon Scieszka

  Book, Reading, Fiction

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• Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.

  Hugo Gernsback

  Fiction, Natural, Imaginative

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• One of the most poignant pieces of recent science fiction for me was the portrayal of the adults in the Pixar film WALL-E. I feel like we're on the cusp of becoming fat babies in floating chairs being fed everything in shake form, and I feel like I am as prone to laziness as anybody.

  Nick Offerman

  Baby, Wall, Adults

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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• I think readers nowadays are happy to have genres blurred. We're seeing that on screen too: The Pirates of the Caribbean mashes up history and fantasy, Cowboys and Aliens mixes the Western and the Science Fiction genres.

  Colette Freedman

  Cowboy, Thinking, Mash Up

  Source: emunderwood.com

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• Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All because of science fictional inventions.

  Ray Bradbury

  Philosophy, Hydrogen Bomb, Ideas

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Many of the early greats of sf — Hugo Gernsback (publisher of Amazing Stories) in particular — saw themselves as educators. The didactic thrust of science fiction got the genre initially pegged as children's fare. It was seen, at its best, as an extension of school and, at its worst, as teenage wish fulfillment.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Children, Teenage, School

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• I see myself as a novelist, period. I mean, the material I work with is what is classified as science fiction and fantasy, and I really don't think about these things when I'm writing. I'm just thinking about telling a story and developing my characters.

  Roger Zelazny

  Writing, Character, Mean

  "A Conversation With Roger Zelazny". Talking with Terry Dowling and Keith Curtis in Science Fiction Vol. 1, #2, June 1978.

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• Science fiction also provides a sense of nostalgia that is always present when it comes to Palestine, in that whenever we talk about Palestine, it is never in the present, but either remembering a past or imagining a better future. Submitting gritty Middle Eastern politics to high production sci-fi in this manner not only underlines the absurdity of the situation, but brings about a dystopian future scenario.

  Larissa Sansour

  Past, Nostalgia, Remember

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• If you start looking at movies on a moral level - "I don't like that, that hurts, that's mean, that's bad" - then I don't even want to talk to you. Or like, someone that says "I don't like science-fiction movies," or "I don't want to sit through a Western," or "I don't like violence in movies," then I completely tune out.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Hurt, Mean, Tunes

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. April 22, 2009.

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• Some people say they're gathering DNA. Perhaps they're gathering it for the future when the human race is stronger or weaker, who knows. That's science fiction and mere speculation.

  Alex Jones

  Race, Dna, People

  Source: www.dailykos.com

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• The solutions like freezing zygotes, fertilized eggs, of all kinds of animals and so on, or keeping them in zoos and having arboreta where we have trees, all these things have been promoted. Even getting the complete genetic code of various fishes so we can let them pass away and then we'll pull them back. That is science fiction run amok.

  E. O. Wilson

  Running, Zoos, Animal

  Source: blog.cleveland.com

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• I love science fiction but I don't like fantastic [cinema]. For example, if you have a magical ring and you can explode the world with it. What are we talking about? You know, it's not interesting. I don't like Lord of the Rings. Even Star Wars, for me, I don't understand this kind of story. But Alien, because the rules of the game are very precise, it could happen. I love science fiction. I have an idea about robots in the future.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Stars, War, Talking

  Source: collider.com

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• I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fiction, Fiction Writers

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• I think the idea was to make a horror film that became a science-fiction film with a lot of melodramatic tropes.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Thinking, Ideas, Fiction

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• I don't think that VR is going to lead to humanity being enslaved in the matrix or letting the world crumble around us. I think it's going to end up being a great technology that brings closer people together, that allows for better communication, that reduces a lot of environmental waste that we're currently doing in the real world. It's probably not going to be nearly as interesting as depicted in science fiction as far as the bad things go.

  Palmer Luckey

  Real, Communication, Technology

  Source: www.wbur.org

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