Brian Aldiss Quotes About Science Fiction

Quotes about: Science Fiction

• Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

  Brian Aldiss

  Science, Ghost Stories, Fiction

  1961 Penguin Science Fiction, introduction.

• Science fiction is for real, space opera is for fun.

  Brian Aldiss

  Fun, Real, Space

• The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a new gimmick, or a bunch of strong men, or an invasion of aliens, or the conquest of other planets, or the annihilation of half the world--in short, pretty nearly anything but the facing up to the integral and irredeemable nature of mankind--can bring about utopian situations. It is the old error of the externalization of evil.

  Brian Aldiss

  Strong, Men, Ideas

• Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused state of knowledge (science), and is characteristically cast in the Gothic or post Gothic mode.

  Brian Aldiss

  Confused, Fiction, Definitions

  Brian Wilson Aldiss (1995). “The Detached Retina: Aspects of SF and Fantasy”, p.72, Syracuse University Press

• I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.

  Brian Aldiss

  Destiny, Fiction, Fit

  "The Twinkling of an Eye: My Life as an Englishman". Book by Brian Aldiss, 1998.

• My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'

  Brian Aldiss

  Fiction, Definitions, Hubris

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