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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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• Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases

  David Brin

  Wall, Fall, Hands

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create life there. However, as I began to research it more thoroughly, I found myself intrigued by the possibilities the world offers.

  Sarah Zettel

  Life, Challenges, Fiction

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

  Donna J. Haraway

  Reality, Fiction, Optical Illusions

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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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• 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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• 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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• People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the time traveler had been only an average history student? What then?

  Tad Williams

  Average, People, What If

  Tad Williams (1998). “Otherland 2: River of Blue Fire”, p.21, Penguin

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• In the annals of science fiction, where dystopias rule the imaginative roost, Star Trek stood nearly alone in telling us that our future would be better than our past, that our common problems would be solved, that we, as a species, were fundamentally good, and that the universe would reward us for our goodness.

  Charles Shaar Murray

  Stars, Past, Rewards

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• Purdom has created a major body of work. Thoughtful, humane, intelligent, extrapolative, involving, his stories are exactly the sort of thing our genre exists to make possible. If you don't like Tom Purdom, you don't like science fiction. Period.

  Michael Swanwick

  Thoughtful, Intelligent, Fiction

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• It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done anything on, which is the cockroach - and truly one of the most frightening insects.

  Michael O'Donoghue

  Scary, Desire, Cockroaches

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• There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.'

  Norman Spinrad

  Fiction, Definitions, Make Sense

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• General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.

  Marvin Minsky

  People, Fiction, Way

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• Y'know, we're all wasting our time writing this hack science fiction! You wanta make real money, you gotta start a religion!

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Real, Writing, Fiction

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• Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.

  Bruce Sterling

  Real, People, Imagination

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• Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism.

  David G. Hartwell

  Literary Genre, Fiction, Century

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• The film is therefore a form of science fiction, in which humans, beasts and machines are on the verge of extinction - 'sacred motors' linked together by a common fate and solidarity, slaves to an increasingly virtual world. A world from which visible machines, real experiences and actions are gradually disappearing.

  Leos Carax

  Real, Fate, Together

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• The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to $.15 a day

  Eduardo Galeano

  Coffee, Law, Fiction

  Eduardo Galeano (1997). “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent”, p.98, NYU Press

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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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