Science Fiction Quotes - Page 29

• What if most of the technologies readers and cinemagoers are presented with in bestselling books and blockbuster movies are not science fiction, but science fact? What if they currently exist on the planet, but are suppressed from the masses?

  James Morcan

  Book, Technology, What If

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• There's a thing with genre movies and science fiction movies that number two is the charmed; two seems to be the best. I loved 'Terminator 2.'

  Dave Gibbons

  Two, Numbers, Fiction

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• I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies I've done, I've ended up playing with genre in some way or another, so any genre that's made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you to use big, mythic situations to talk about ordinary things.

  Rian Johnson

  Ordinary, Fiction, Use

  "Why Looper is director Rian Johnson's best film yet". Interview with Peter Rubin, www.wired.com. September 27, 2012.

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• In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western culture, being more suspicious of science, and hubris, you'll see a lot of fear of creating something that goes out of control.

  Cynthia Breazeal

  Thinking, Creating, Western Culture

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• For the last 30 years our cinemas have been ruled by science fiction and horror. We've had some very good Fantasy films in that time period, but for my tastes I still haven't seen fantasy done to absolute perfection. That is the hope I have in this project.

  Harry Knowles

  Years, Perfection, Cinema

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• Science fiction shows are traditionally about the gimmick or the gadget and tend to be emotionally cool to the touch.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Gimmicks, Fiction, Gadgets

  Source: collider.com

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• When I was a kid and I was being introduced to science fiction by watching movies with my Dad, Kubrick is one of those guys that we used to watch, you know, I watched Clockwork Orange at an age that was incredibly inappropriate, but he sat there with me and he explained what was going on and you know, I came to appreciate it even if I was terrified at the time.

  Duncan Jones

  Dad, Kids, Orange

  Source: collider.com

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• [A] science fiction story is one which presupposes a technology, or an effect of technology, or a disturbance in the natural order, such as humanity, up to the time of writing, has not in actual fact, experienced.

  Edmund Crispin

  Writing, Technology, Order

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• The brightest minds in our field have been trying to find a definition of science fiction for these past seventy years. The short answer is, science fiction stories are given as possible, not necessarily here and now, but somewhere, sometime.

  Larry Niven

  Past, Years, Fiction Stories

  Larry Niven (2003). “Scatterbrain”, p.311, Macmillan

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• Science fiction, as I mentioned before, writes about what is neither impossible nor possible; the fact is that, when the question of possibility comes up in science fiction, the author can only reply that nobody knows. We haven't been there yet. We haven't discovered that yet. Science fiction hasn't happened.

  Joanna Russ

  Writing, Fiction, Facts

  Joanna Russ (1995). “To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction”, p.22, Indiana University Press

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• [Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.

  Jack Williamson

  Discovery, Fiction, Assumption

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• Even people that were never interested in science fiction are interested in STAR TREK.

  Michael Dorn

  Stars, People, Fiction

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• Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Doe, Fiction, Youth

  Robert Charles Wilson (2000). “The Perseids and Other Stories”, p.124, Macmillan

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• I worked out a book which I thought was just straight science fiction -- with everything pretty much explained, and suddenly I got an idea which I thought was kind of neat for working in a mythological angle. I'm really struggling with myself. It would probably be a better book if I include it, but on the other hand I don't always like to keep reverting to it. I think what I'm going to do is vary my output, do some straight science fiction and some straight fantasy that doesn't involve mythology, and composites.

  Roger Zelazny

  Struggle, Book, Thinking

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• Most of what I do is science fiction. Some of the things I do are fantasy. I don't like the labels, they're marketing tools, and I certainly don't worry about them when I'm writing. They are also inhibiting factors; you wind up not getting read by certain people, or not getting sold to certain people because they think they know what you write. You say science fiction and everybody thinks Star Wars or Star Trek.

  Octavia Butler

  Stars, War, Writing

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• It's interesting how many science fiction writers get going when they are very young. I was on a program with Greg Bear and he mentioned that he had gotten started writing when he was eight. And I began writing when I was 10. I think we're influenced by the stuff, we find it and we love it and we're influenced by it....I know I collected my first rejection slip when I was 13, and I went on collecting them for a long time after that.

  Octavia Butler

  Writing, Thinking, Eight

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• Today, we know that time travel need not be confined to myths, science fiction, Hollywood movies, or even speculation by theoretical physicists. Time travel is possible. For example, an object traveling at high speeds ages more slowly than a stationary object. This means that if you were to travel into outer space and return, moving close to light speed, you could travel thousands of years into the Earth's future.

  Clifford A. Pickover

  Moving, Mean, Space

  Clifford A. Pickover (1999). “Time: A Traveler's Guide”, p.15, Oxford University Press

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• I seem to offend everybody. I just never got into the universe. I don't seem to have a tremendous amount of discipline or patience with having to follow a story that is really multi-leveled and science-fiction.

  Marc Maron

  Discipline, Fiction, Stories

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm not the sort of fellow who does the same thing all the time. I began using a lot of science fiction apparatus. I came out with the atom bomb two years before it was actually used because I read in the paper that a fellow named Nicola Tesla was working on the atom bomb.

  Jack Kirby

  Years, Two, Doe

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• [Science fiction is] the attempt to deal rationally with alternate possibilities in a manner which will be entertaining.

  Lester del Rey

  Fiction, Possibility, Deals

  Lester Del Rey (1980). “The world of science fiction, 1926-1976: the history of a subculture”, Dissertations-G

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• Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no more unnatural than the existence of trash anywhere.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Fiction, Trash, Existence

  Venture Science Fiction, March 1958.

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• [Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings.

  Isaac Asimov

  Impact, Fiction, Literature

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• I define science fiction as fiction in which things happen that are not possible today - that depend, for instance, on advanced space travel, time travel, the discovery of green monsters on other planets or galaxies, or that contain various technologies we have not yet developed.

  Margaret Atwood

  Technology, Discovery, Space

  Margaret Atwood (2006). “Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose: 1983-2005”, p.92, Basic Books

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• I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the history of ideas, and they're always ideas that work themselves out and become real and happen in the world. And fantasy comes along and says, 'We're going to break all the laws of physics.' ... Most people don't realize it, but the series of films which have made more money than any other series of films in the history of the universe is the James Bond series. They're all science fiction, too - romantic, adventurous, frivolous, fantastic science fiction!

  Ray Bradbury

  Art, Real, Law

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• Many people have tried to define science fiction. I like to call it the literature of exploration and change. While other genres obsess upon so-called eternal verities, SF deals with the possibility that our children may have different problems. They may, indeed, be different than we have been.

  David Brin

  Children, People, Different

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