Science Fiction Quotes - Page 8

• So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.

  Robert Sheckley

  Science, Would Be, Fiction

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• Jerry reversed the usual formula of the superhero who goes to another planet. He put the superhero in ordinary, familiar surroundings, instead of the other way around, as was done in most science fiction. That was the first time I can recall that it had ever been done.

  Joe Shuster

  Science, Artist, Superhero

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• But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

  Dan Simmons

  Science, Thinking, Fiction

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• I don't read Science Fiction.

  Brent Spiner

  Science, Fiction

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• As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

  Norman Spinrad

  Children, Reading, Science

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• I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Science, Fiction, Stories

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• For those who resist the notion that the mainstream is a genre, we recommend that they browse the shelves of their local bookstore. For if the mainstream is not a genre, then it must necessarily embrace all kinds of writing: romance, adventure, horror, thriller, crime, and, yes, science fiction.

  James Patrick Kelly

  Writing, Adventure, Romance

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• My music is pretty honest. I can't rap on science fiction. Punk is from the street.

  Rick James

  Rap, Fiction, Honest

  FaceBook post by Rick James from Feb 13, 2015

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• Science fiction is an extension of science.

  Len Wiseman

  Fiction, Extensions

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• If you really want you people to innovate, buy a science fiction book, tear off the covers, and tell them it's history.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Money, Book, People

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• I would say I'm an ironist not a satirist. All you do is you take existing tendencies and crank them up, just turn up the volume dial. Which is a technique of science fiction, apart from anything else.

  Martin Amis

  Technique, Fiction, Crank

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• There's always someone kicking guns. We wanted ["Badlands"] to be a world without guns and bullets, where martial arts was the form of fighting and defense and attack. Martial arts is king in this world. That was the first thing. We didn't want it to be a period piece either. We felt those are overdone and stuffy. That was what lead us to explore that area of science fiction and future, a world we can create and control.

  Miles Millar

  Art, Kings, Fighting

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do Harry Potter or anything like that. Even when I did science-fiction, I didnt write about foreign planets and distant futures. I certainly never did fantasies about trolls living under bridges.

  Richard Matheson

  Writing, Bridges, Fiction

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

  Rudy Rucker

  Character, Work Out, Rude

  "Adventures In Gnarly Computation". www.rudyrucker.com. October 2005.

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• Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics.

  Jean M. Auel

  Journey, Space, Ships

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• My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Real, Feelings, Everyday

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• I'm not really a science-fiction fan, I quite like the idea of getting away from the science-fiction side of it, for two episodes. It was lovely, it was a super story and great fun.

  Sarah Sutton

  Fun, Science, Ideas

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• Counterfeit Kings is the King Lear of space operas. Science fiction has a fresh, new, no-nonsense voice and his name is Adam Connell.

  Steven-Elliot Altman

  Kings, Names, Voice

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• Hope's Folly is a rapid-fire romp through futuristic political intrigue and high-risk passion The tug of war between decorum and passion keeps the romantic intrigue smoldering. With Hope's Folly, Linnea Sinclair builds on a secure reputation as a leading fashioner of science fiction romance. She straddles and blends these genres with a unique bravura and wit.

  Philip K. Jason

  War, Passion, Unique

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• In fantasy, impossible things exist. In science fiction, impossible things exist and can be understood by humans. In supernatural horror, impossible things exist and cannot live in peace with humans.

  Will Shetterly

  Impossible Things, Fiction, Fantasy

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• I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

  Jack Vance

  Science, Fiction

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• Science fiction is the agent provocateur of literature.

  Dana Stabenow

  Fiction, Agents, Literature

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• Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Past, Fiction, Anthropology

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• Science fiction is one of the smartest genres around because you have to have so much forethought.

  Amanda Schull

  Fiction, Genre, Forethought

  Source: collider.com

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• "Hard" science fiction probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reconstructs the probable past. Even far-out fantasy can present a significant test of human values exposed to a new environment. Deriving its most cogent ideas from the tension between permanence and change, science fiction combines the diversions of novelty with its pertinent kind of realism.

  Jack Williamson

  Mean, Past, Ideas

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