For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects.
Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.
Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us.
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.
One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about.
No matter what decade science fiction comes from, it's representing the present.
Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together.
I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself "well, that's not going to happen
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
Science fiction is a great way to pretend you are writing about the future when in reality you are attacking the recent past and the present. You can criticize communists, racists, fascists or any other clear and present danger, and they can't imagine you are writing about them.
I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "Science Fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.
Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.
Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.
FEAR IS THE MIND-KILLER. FEAR IS THE LITTLE-DEATH THAT BRINGS TOTAL OBLITERATION.
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
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.
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.
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