Science Fiction Quotes - Page 16

• Comics also led a lot of young people to science fiction.

  Kerry James Marshall

  People, Fiction, Young

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Something like 'Alien,' that was not so easy. If there's any genre I wouldn't mind not having to do anymore, it would be science fiction. It's just all to do with the toys, and there's so much hanging around.

  John Hurt

  Mind, Fiction, Toys

  Source: www.filmslatemagazine.com

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• When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands on.

  John Darnielle

  Book, Kids, Hands

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'm sure there's an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer.

  Neil Gaiman

  Fiction, Fiction Writers, Universe

  Source: www.sffworld.com

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• For me, fantasy and speculative science fiction are the genres that feel closest to how I feel about being alive. Like, when I feel the most invigorated by just even a walk down the block in twilight, when the street lamps are just coming on and there's mist and some shadowy thing in silhouette in a window, I naturally invest all of those things with deep mythology and mystery and meaning. I think I need to believe in that version of reality because I get very scared when I don't.

  Brit Marling

  Block, Twilight, Believe

  Interview with Malcolm Gladwell, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 13, 2017.

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• In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Different, Fiction, Crowds

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• People as me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.

  Frederik Pohl

  Writing, People, Research

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• I love the fact that it's not only about Star Trek, but about science fiction in general, and science.

  Rene Auberjonois

  Stars, Fiction, Facts

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• One of the most poignant pieces of recent science fiction for me was the portrayal of the adults in the Pixar film WALL-E. I feel like we're on the cusp of becoming fat babies in floating chairs being fed everything in shake form, and I feel like I am as prone to laziness as anybody.

  Nick Offerman

  Baby, Wall, Adults

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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• It was an excess of fantasy that killed the old United States, the whole Mickey Mouse and Marilyn thing, the most brilliant technologies devoted to trivia like instant cameras and space spectaculars that should have stayed in the pages of Science Fiction . . . some of the last Presidents of the U.S.A. seemed to have been recruited straight from Disneyland.

  J. G. Ballard

  Technology, Space, Should Have

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• If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake.

  Joss Whedon

  Fiction, Crafts, Sake

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• Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction. We live in a space ship, dear.

  Joss Whedon

  Firefly, Psychics, Space

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• He who controls the spice controls the universe.

  Frank Herbert

  Spices, Sci Fi, Universe

  Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, Frank Herbert (2008). “The Road to Dune”, p.183, Macmillan

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• Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Fiction

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• I do enjoy reading some science fiction.

  Colin Farrell

  Reading, Fiction, Enjoy

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. June 26, 2002.

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• One of the liberating effects of science fiction when I was a teenager was precisely its ability to tune me into all sorts of strange data and make me realize that I wasn’t as totally isolated in perceiving the world as being monstrous and crazy

  William Gibson

  Crazy, Teenager, Data

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• In really, really good science fiction the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

  Damon Lindelof

  Fiction, Lines, Blurry

  "Writing a TED Talk from the future: Q&A with Damon Lindelof". TED Talk, blog.ted.com. February 28, 2012.

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• I've actually usually been wary of taking on science fiction as an actor because it's really tough to do. It's really difficult to execute. There's often lots of prosthetics, green screen and special effects, and it can get very technical.

  Grant Bowler

  Special, Fiction, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Science fiction also provides a sense of nostalgia that is always present when it comes to Palestine, in that whenever we talk about Palestine, it is never in the present, but either remembering a past or imagining a better future. Submitting gritty Middle Eastern politics to high production sci-fi in this manner not only underlines the absurdity of the situation, but brings about a dystopian future scenario.

  Larissa Sansour

  Past, Nostalgia, Remember

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• If it has horses and swords in it, it's a fantasy, unless it also has a rocketship in it, in which case it becomes science fiction. The only thing that'll turn a story with a rocketship in it back into fantasy is the Holy Grail.

  Debra Doyle

  Horse, Writing, Holy Grail

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• My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material.

  Jean M. Auel

  Romance, Fiction, Magazines

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• Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.

  Vinton Cerf

  Long, Growth, Doe

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• You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history

  Iain Banks

  Needs, Fiction, Ends

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• Peter Watts has taken the core myths of the First Contact story and shaken them to pieces. The result is a shocking and mesmerizing performance, a tour-de-force of provocative and often alarming ideas. It is a rare novel that has the potential to set science fiction on an entirely new course. Blindsight is such a book.

  Karl Schroeder

  Book, Taken, Ideas

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• Blindsight is excellent. It's state-of-the-art science fiction: smart, dark and it grabs you by the throat from page one. Like a C J Cherryh book it makes you feel the danger of the hostile environment (or lack of one) out there. And it plays with some fascinating possibilities in human development, and some disconcerting ideas about human consciousness. What else can I say? Thanks for giving me the privilege of reading this.

  Neal Asher

  Art, Book, Reading

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