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• With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be.

  Dwight Schultz

  Science, Thinking, Fiction

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• I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.

  David Eddings

  Optimistic, Fiction, Opinion

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• When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into.

  Terri Windling

  Business, Adults, Fiction

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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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• Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Science, Fiction, Novelty

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• 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

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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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• 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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• When I began writing science fiction in the middle 60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.

  Vernor Vinge

  Writing, Science, Ideas

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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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• But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

  Jack Vance

  Science, Fiction, Sake

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• Science fiction still is an idea genre.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Science, Ideas, Fiction

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

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Science, Reality, Fiction

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• I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Science, Fiction, Stories

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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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• I don't read Science Fiction.

  Brent Spiner

  Science, Fiction

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• But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

  Dan Simmons

  Science, Thinking, Fiction

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• Jerry reversed the usual formula of the superhero who goes to another planet. He put the superhero in ordinary, familiar surroundings, instead of the other way around, as was done in most science fiction. That was the first time I can recall that it had ever been done.

  Joe Shuster

  Science, Artist, Superhero

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• So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.

  Robert Sheckley

  Science, Would Be, Fiction

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• Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

  Robert Sheckley

  Science, Healthy, Fiction

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• Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene is a classic example of science fiction.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Selfish, Example, Fiction

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• The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman wears a brown suit in the city. Colleges may be to blame. English majors are encouraged, I know, to hate chemistry and physics, and to be proud because they are not dull and creepy and humorless and war-oriented like the engineers across the quad. And our most impressive critics have commonly been such English majors, and they are squeamish about technology to this very day. So it is natural for them to despise science fiction.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hate, War, College

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