Fiction Stories Quotes

• Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

  Isaac Asimov

  Writing, Essence, May

  "My Own View". "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction". Book edited by Robert Holdstock, 1978.

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• I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wall, Home, Men

  "On Fairy-Stories". Andrew Lang Lecture at the University of St. Andrews on March 08, 1939. "Essays presented to Charles Williams", 1947.

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• That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

  Tim O'Brien

  Fiction, Sufficient

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• There's nothing I love more than a great truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story.

  Jeff Feuerzeig

  Stranger, Truth Is, Fiction

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Fantasy and science fiction stories are very applicable to talking to your children about the world. They tend to talk about the big questions regarding life and the universe.

  Stephen H. Segal

  Children, Talking, World

  "The Wisdom of 'Geek Parenting'". Interview With Adrian Liang, www.amazonbookreview.com. April 28, 2016.

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• A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

  Frederik Pohl

  Able, Jam, Science Fiction

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• Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of 'Star Wars.'

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Stars, War, Long

  "Catching Up With Brian K Vaughan & His New Comic Book 'Saga'". Interview with Zack Smith, www.newsarama.com. September 06, 2011.

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• I love really exploring... you know, a cop drama for example is a great way to explore class in this country and explore, you know, really, identity in the country and who we are in a way that is extremely exciting, but it's also real, you know, it's also real people and real drama. The same with the military. I mean, a good science fiction story is also great.

  Ethan Hawke

  Country, Military, Real

  "Ethan Hawke talks 'Regression'". Interview with Josh Lasser, www.ign.com. February 4, 2016.

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• If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a spaceship, you don't have to have someone thrown out an airlock.

  Charlie Jane Anders

  Writing, Science Fiction, Spaceships

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The brightest minds in our field have been trying to find a definition of science fiction for these past seventy years. The short answer is, science fiction stories are given as possible, not necessarily here and now, but somewhere, sometime.

  Larry Niven

  Past, Years, Mind

  Larry Niven (2003). “Scatterbrain”, p.311, Macmillan

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• [A] science fiction story is one which presupposes a technology, or an effect of technology, or a disturbance in the natural order, such as humanity, up to the time of writing, has not in actual fact, experienced.

  Edmund Crispin

  Writing, Technology, Order

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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

  World, Moral, Problem

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

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• While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me. To fall into a black hole, that is more amazing than anything I've ever read in a science-fiction story.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Real, Fall, Black

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.

  Jamais Cascio

  Might, Science Fiction, Good Science

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• What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I'm told.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  World, Common, Fantasy

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.133, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for no good reason, science fiction. A better generic term would be 'future fairy tales'. And even this is objectionable, since many science fiction stories take place in the present or the past, far and near.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Writing, Past, Rays

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• Who are we? And to me that's the essential question that's always been in science fiction. A lot of science fiction stories are - at their very best - evocations of that question. When we look up at the night sky and wonder, "Is there anyone else out there?" we're also asking who we are we in relation to them.

  David Gerrold

  Night, Sky, Essentials

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Reading, Home, Cutting

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• I could speculate, but it would be just speculation and the kind of thing that you would get in with a science fiction story. And if I was doing a science fiction story then I would come up with what can go wrong with this system.

  Gene Wolfe

  Writing, Would Be, Kind

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• A good science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its science content.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Writing, Problem, Science Fiction

  "The Man Who Lost the Sea".

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• It does sound like a science fiction story and I may sound like one of these guys who walks up and down with a sandwich board saying the end of the world is nigh, but the end is nigh.

  Lembit Opik

  Guy, World, May

  "Nasa dismisses asteroid collision claim" by Simon Jeffery, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2002.

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