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• I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.

  Ray Bradbury

  Art, Fiction, Impossible

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• Please help keep the world clean: others may wish to use it.
  Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
  The only place success comes before work is a dictionary
  Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Wish, Detectives, Fiction

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• A lot of comic conventions go way beyond comic books and include other parts of pop culture, like celebrities and science fiction and movies and books. So I go to them either as a celebrity, or as a fan, because I'm a big sci-fi geek.

  Jane Wiedlin

  Book, Fans, Culture

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• I'm not well-versed in the science fiction world. I'm hoping that I'll get more opportunities in it because you get to create a new world.

  Kelly Masterson

  Opportunity, Fiction, World

  Source: collider.com

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• We physicists don't like to admit it, but some of us are closet science fiction fans. We hate to admit it because it sounds undignified. But when we were children, that's when we got interested in science, for a lot of us.

  Michio Kaku

  Children, Hate, Sound

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• A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fiction Stories, World, Moral

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.108, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• What's needed today, now, more than ever, is 'Star Peace' for there is an ominous, mutual threat to all science fiction. It's called 'Twilight'. And it is really, really bad.

  George Takei

  Stars, Twilight, Fiction

  "George Takei Brokers Star Peace And Calls On Star Trek And Star Wars Fans To Unite Against Twilight" by Kenji Lloyd, www.heyuguys.com. December 13, 2011.

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• In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.

  James Gunn

  Change, Character, Technology

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• Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.

  Marie Lu

  Brain, Fiction, Fantasy

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• I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.

  Paul Krugman

  Political, Fiction, Kind

  "Economist Paul Krugman Is a Hard-Core Science Fiction Fan". "Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy" with John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley, www.wired.com. May 30, 2012.

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• Star Trek, I thought, was a very inconsistent show, which at times sparkled with true ingenuity and pure science fiction approaches, and other times was more carnival-like, and very much more the creature of television than the creature of a legitimate literary form.

  Rod Serling

  Stars, Fiction, Television

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• Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.

  Rod Serling

  Fiction, Impossible, Fantasy

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• The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion

  Donna J. Haraway

  Reality, Fiction, Optical Illusions

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• Jack Campbell's dazzling new series is military science fiction at its best. Not only does he tell a yarn of great adventure and action, but he also develops the characters with satisfying depth. I thoroughly enjoyed this rip-roaring read, and I can hardly wait for the next book.

  Catherine Asaro

  Military, Rip, Book

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• I grew up a really nerdy kid. I read science fiction and fantasy voraciously, for the first 16 years of my life. I read a lot of classic Cold War science fiction, which is much of the best science fiction, so I speak the language well, which is a commodity that's not easy to come by in Hollywood.

  Jon Spaihts

  War, Kids, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain.

  Julian May

  Running, Writing, Race

  Julian May (2013). “A Pliocene Companion”, p.4, Pan Macmillan

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• When people ask me to define science fiction and fantasy I say they are the literatures that explore the fact that we are toolmakers and users, and are always changing our environment.

  Nalo Hopkinson

  People, Fiction, Literature

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• My friend Ian Hagemann, a regular at Wiscon, once said on a panel that when he reads science fiction futures that are full of white people and no one else, he wonders when the race war happened that wiped out the majority of the human race, and why the writer hasn’t mentioned such an important plot point.

  Nalo Hopkinson

  War, Race, White

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• Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Empathy, Apathy, Fiction

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2015). “Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story”, p.96, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The final frontier is just science fiction--don't believe it. Like the universe, there is no end.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Believe, Borders

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• The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different.

  Neal Stephenson

  Mean, Different, Fiction

  Interview with Catherine Asaro, www.sfsite.com. September 1999.

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• The decline in American pride, patriotism, and piety can be directly
  attributed to the extensive reading of so-called 'science fiction' by our
  young people. This poisonous rot about creatures not of God's making,
  societies of 'aliens' without a good Christian among them, and raw sex
  between unhuman beings with three heads and God alone knows what sort of
  reproductive apparatus keeps our young people from realizing the true will
  of God.

  Jerry Falwell

  Christian, Sex, Reading

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• The science fiction I write comes from a pretty deep pool of literature, not just from the reflection of other science fiction films, and I think that gives me somewhat deeper roots.

  Jon Spaihts

  Writing, Reflection, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• 'Fringe' is one of my favorite television shows, from its inception. I absolutely love all of the science fiction of it, the mystery of it, and the science in it.

  Jill Scott

  Fiction, Television, Mystery

  "Jill Scott Talks FRINGE, Why She Wanted the Role, Hopes for Her Character, Being Part of the Final Season, Working with the Cast and Future Guest Spots". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 8, 2012.

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• Farscape is not what you call hard science fiction.

  Ben Browder

  Fiction, Hard

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