Science Fiction Quotes - Page 30

• Why don't they make more science fiction movies? The answer to any question starting, Why don't they- is almost always, Money.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Fiction, Answers, Astronomy

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• I am, of comics I was never as big of a fan as I probably could have been I suppose but I'm definitely a fan of science fiction fantasy. My interests were in fantasy more than comics growing up.

  Brandon Routh

  Growing Up, Fans, Fiction

  "Brandon Routh for 'Superman Returns'". Interview with Paul Fischer, June 16, 2006.

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• Since 1977, there have been many science fiction movies, but none has managed to equal [A New Hope's] blend of adventure, likable characters, and epic storytelling.

  James Berardinelli

  Adventure, Character, Epic

  "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)". A movie review at www.reelviews.net,

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• Actually, I'm addicted to science fiction. Let me make my diction clear - I love sci-fi.

  John Rhys-Davies

  Diction, Fiction, Sci Fi

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• Science fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe what is in fact going on, what people actually do and feel, how people relate to everything else in this vast sack, this belly of the universe, this womb of things to be and tomb of things that were, this unending story.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  People, Trying, Way

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.170, Grove Press

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• Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation.

  Susan Sontag

  Psychics, Fiction, Literature

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• Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.

  Brit Marling

  Fiction, World, Way

  "Brit Marling Exclusive Interview Another Earth". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 18, 2011.

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• I like science fiction. I took all the accelerated classes in school. I'm kind of a dork.

  Anson Mount

  School, Class, Fiction

  "Anson Mount Hell on Wheels Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 09, 2011.

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• I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.

  Jean M. Auel

  Book, Ideas, Fiction

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• People who love science fiction really do love sex.

  Susie Bright

  Sex, People, Fiction

  "Bright Ideas". Interview with Tamara Wieder, February 11, 2005.

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• I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.

  Robert Sheckley

  Science, Fiction, Critics

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• Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.

  Iain Banks

  Legacy, Fiction, Fabric

  "Iain M Banks: Science fiction is no place for dabblers" by Iain M Banks, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2011.

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• I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun of it. That's why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds.

  Iain Banks

  Fun, Technology, Thinking

  "Sci-Fi Writer Iain Banks Talks Surface Detail's Hell, Creationist Heresy". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. October 15, 2010.

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• I'm not the sort of fellow who does the same thing all the time. I began using a lot of science fiction apparatus. I came out with the atom bomb two years before it was actually used because I read in the paper that a fellow named Nicola Tesla was working on the atom bomb.

  Jack Kirby

  Years, Two, Doe

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• I define science fiction as fiction in which things happen that are not possible today - that depend, for instance, on advanced space travel, time travel, the discovery of green monsters on other planets or galaxies, or that contain various technologies we have not yet developed.

  Margaret Atwood

  Technology, Discovery, Space

  Margaret Atwood (2006). “Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose: 1983-2005”, p.92, Basic Books

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• Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are a science fiction or fantasy writer, going to conventions and attending panels is very useful.

  Patricia Briggs

  Book, Writing, Fiction

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• Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no more unnatural than the existence of trash anywhere.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Fiction, Trash, Existence

  Venture Science Fiction, March 1958.

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• Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.

  Ray Bradbury

  Teacher, Fiction, Fables

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• There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.

  David Brin

  Writing, Doubt, Training

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• Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

  David Brin

  People, Age, Doe

  Orbit Interview, www.sffworld.com. July 19, 2002.

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• I was twelve when I read my first sf magazine

  Philip K. Dick

  Twelve, Magazines, Firsts

  Philip K. Dick (1995). “The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings”, Pantheon

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• Ours is the first generation that has grown up with science-fiction ideas.

  Carl Sagan

  Ideas, Generations, Fiction

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, p.172, Ballantine Books

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• Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.

  Jean M. Auel

  Thinking, Two, Fiction

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• Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I think I'll start work on it next year (in all my spare time) but I'd like to get it finished some day.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Thinking, Fiction Novels, Years

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• Star Trek' is the McDonald's of science fiction; it's fast food storytelling. Every problem is like every other problem. They all get solved in an hour. Nobody ever gets hurt, and nobody needs to care. You give up an hour of your time, and you don't really have to get involved. It's all plastic.

  David Gerrold

  Hurt, Stars, Giving Up

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