Science Fiction Quotes - Page 12

• Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Philosophy, Writing, Science

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• I think Douglas [Douglas Adams] was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that he could make science fiction work as well as it did. And just such fun to have around, he was just such a lovely man.

  Lalla Ward

  Clever, Fun, Real

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

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• The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do.

  Lindsay Wagner

  Science, Giving, Fiction

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• Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny.

  Lawrence Wright

  Destiny, Alternatives, Fiction

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• I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

  A. E. van Vogt

  Science, Years, Fiction

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• The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

  Frederik Pohl

  Fiction, Dissection, Method

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• The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

  Vernor Vinge

  Science, Creative, Fiction

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• Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Reading, Writing, Science

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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 still is an idea genre.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Science, Ideas, Fiction

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• Science fiction is essentially a kind of fiction in which people learn more about how to live in the real world, visiting imaginary worlds unlike our own, in order to investigate by way of pleasurable thought-experiments how things might be done differently.

  Brian Stableford

  Real, Order, People

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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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• In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Science, Reality, 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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• And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it's like a set in a movie.

  Berenice Marlohe

  Night, Light, Fans

  "Berenice Marlohe Talks SKYFALL, Playing a Femme Fatale/Bond Girl, How She Was Cast, and More". Interview with Adam Chitwood, collider.com. May 1, 2012.

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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 the agent provocateur of literature.

  Dana Stabenow

  Fiction, Agents, Literature

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I don't read Science Fiction.

  Brent Spiner

  Science, Fiction

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