Science Fiction Quotes - Page 23

• What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time.

  Doris Lessing

  Fiction, Realizing, Social

  "Doris Lessing: Hot Dawns". Interview with Harvey Blume, Boston Book Review, February 1998.

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• We shall not read it for its sociological insights, which are non-existent, nor as science fiction, because it has a general air of implausibility; but there is one high poetic fancy in the New Atlantis that stays in the mind after all its fancies and inventions have been forgotten. In the New Atlantis, an island kingdom lying in very distant seas, the only commodity of external trade is light: Bacon's own special light, the light of understanding.

  Peter Medawar

  Lying, Sea, Islands

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• [on L. Ron Hubbard] I'm not in favor of his religion by any means. But he wrote a book called 'Battlefield Earth' that was a very fun science-fiction book.

  Mitt Romney

  Fun, Book, Mean

  "Romney Favors Hubbard Novel" by Jim Rutenberg, thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com. April 30, 2007.

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• Historically, I guess that's how science fiction works: you start by using aliens to think the unthinkable — and then, eventually, another writer, having grown a little more comfortable with the earlier notion, brings it into the human.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Thinking, Fiction, Littles

  "Space Cowboy: An Interview with Samuel R. Delany". Interview with Scott Westerfeld, www.nerve.com. 2001.

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• Many of the early greats of sf — Hugo Gernsback (publisher of Amazing Stories) in particular — saw themselves as educators. The didactic thrust of science fiction got the genre initially pegged as children's fare. It was seen, at its best, as an extension of school and, at its worst, as teenage wish fulfillment.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Children, Teenage, School

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• To those who think that all this sounds like science fiction, we point out that yesterday's science fiction is today's fact. The Industrial Revolution has radically altered man's environment and way of life, and it is only to be expected that as technology is increasingly applied to the human body and mind, man himself will be altered as radically as his environment and way of life have been.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Technology, Men, Thinking

  The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski (2005). “The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future”, p.73, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• I see myself as a novelist, period. I mean, the material I work with is what is classified as science fiction and fantasy, and I really don't think about these things when I'm writing. I'm just thinking about telling a story and developing my characters.

  Roger Zelazny

  Writing, Character, Mean

  "A Conversation With Roger Zelazny". Talking with Terry Dowling and Keith Curtis in Science Fiction Vol. 1, #2, June 1978.

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• I never think about genre when I work. I've written fantasy, science fiction, supernatural fiction, and am now working on a suspense novel. Genres are mostly useful as a marketing tool, and to help booksellers known where to shelve a book.

  Elizabeth Hand

  Book, Thinking, Suspense Novels

  On "Mortal Love" at HarperCollins, 2004.

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• Literary science fiction is a very, very narrow band of the publishing business. I love science fiction in more of a pop-culture sense. And by the way, the line between science fiction and reality has blurred a lot in my life doing deep ocean expeditions and working on actual space projects and so on. So I tend to be more fascinated by the reality of the science-fiction world in which we live.

  James Cameron

  Ocean, Reality, Space

  "James Cameron: The ‘Avatar’ sequel will dive into the oceans of Pandora". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. April 20,2010.

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• The rich survive and everyone else gets ready to work 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 jobs and what do you get? Blade Runner. Welcome to your science fiction. Your 21st century. I think that's where it goes. The rich get richer and everyone else... the middle class kind of starts dropping lower and lower.

  Henry Rollins

  Jobs, Thinking, Class

  Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

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• My first obligation is to entertain but as far as science fiction goes, it's much easier to comment on today from another time because people then aren't focused on 'did you get the details right?' It's sort of a Trojan horse approach to ideas because it's wrapped in the future, it's wrapped in action, thriller.

  Andrew Niccol

  Horse, Ideas, People

  "Director Andrew Niccol IN TIME Interview; Talks About Adapting Stephenie Myer’s THE HOST". Interview with Tommy Cook, collider.com. October 25, 2011.

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• My advice is to write about what you are interested in. If you read science fiction and fantasy, then write in that genre. If you read romance novels, then try writing one.

  Michael Scott

  Writing, Romance, Advice

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• Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem by John Updike and to have sent teams of scientists deep underground for 50 years to build huge science-fiction-like contraptions to unravel their mysteries.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Team, Years, Fiction

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• We live in a science fiction universe. We have done for a long time.

  Terry Pratchett

  Long, Fiction, Done

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• As a youngster, I read of Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction. And as a fighter pilot, I observed the selection of the Mercury astronauts. All this was fascinating, but I really didn't think I would ever be a part of it. It was only when my good friend Ed White was selected as a Gemini astronaut that I decided to join NASA as part of the Apollo program.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Good Friend, Thinking, White

  Scholastic Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 17, 1998.

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• If my setting is new to a reader, or the concerns of the novel are new, I hope they will learn something about the world. I would like to say that they can trust that what they do learn in the novel will be accurate, because I pay a lot of attention to facts. I do a lot of research to make sure that I'm not giving them, you know, blue moons of Jupiter. It's not science fiction.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Moon, Blue, Giving

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• If we're talking about the science fiction or action genres, I've always tried when I could to do them in a way that's not just cookie-cutter - that they bring something fresh or original to it, have some kind of ideas to it. I've been fortunate, in some sense, to do those kinds of movies that are unique.

  Keanu Reeves

  Unique, Talking, Ideas

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal.

  Ray Bradbury

  Real, Book, Writing

  Source: alibi.com

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• There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fiction, Kind, Film

  Source: www.jasonmarchi.com

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• Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.

  Ray Bradbury

  Men, Needs, Fiction

  Source: www.raybradbury.com

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• There are certain kinds of people who write science fiction. I think a lot of us married late. A lot of us are mama's boys. I lived at home until I was 27. But most of the writers I know in any field, especially science fiction, grew up late. They're so interested in doing what they do and in their science, they don't think about other things.

  Ray Bradbury

  Home, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.raybradbury.com

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• In my world of the people who study war and defense issues, we simply did not talk about robotics. We do not talk about it because it's seen as mere science fiction. It's cold, hard, metallic reality.

  Peter Singer

  War, Reality, Issues

  "Peter W. Singer’s Killer Robots". Interview with Eric Stoner, www.motherjones.com. January 29, 2009.

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• I don't think of myself as being particulary a subversive writer, but I like to think that my work could afford someone else, the extra degree of freedom that I found when I first found science fiction.

  William Gibson

  Thinking, Degrees, Fiction

  Interview with Eric Holstein and Raoul Abdaloff, www.actusf.com. March 2008.

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• I read mostly science-fiction and fantasy when I was a teenager, and I was always drawn to stories where the characters had telepathic powers.

  Ruth Glick

  Teenager, Character, Fiction

  "'Dark Powers' Author Rebecca York". Interview with Joyce Lamb, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. October 21, 2012.

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• If you start looking at movies on a moral level - "I don't like that, that hurts, that's mean, that's bad" - then I don't even want to talk to you. Or like, someone that says "I don't like science-fiction movies," or "I don't want to sit through a Western," or "I don't like violence in movies," then I completely tune out.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Hurt, Mean, Tunes

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. April 22, 2009.

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