Science Fiction Quotes - Page 8

• A good science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its science content.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Writing, Fiction Stories, Problem

  "The Man Who Lost the Sea".

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• Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse. No more can it be dismissed as science fiction; we are already feeling the effects.

  Desmond Tutu

  Years, Knowing, People

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• Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying.

  Stephen Hawking

  Real, Science, Religion

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• I could speculate, but it would be just speculation and the kind of thing that you would get in with a science fiction story. And if I was doing a science fiction story then I would come up with what can go wrong with this system.

  Gene Wolfe

  Writing, Fiction Stories, Would Be

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• Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Travel, Growing Up, Reading

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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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• It's been suggested that most women fail to write significantly because the female mind is viscerotonic, and occupied almost exclusively with the moment-to-moment reality of emotions. If this is true, literature's loss is science fiction's gain, for Out of Bounds, Judith Merril's collection of short stories, is a warm and colorful rendering of the minutiae of the future.

  Alfred Bester

  Writing, Loss, Reality

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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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• 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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• It really wasn't my thing. It still isn't my thing, the whole science-fiction action thing. I prefer simpler, character-based movies.

  Natalie Portman

  Character, Fiction, Action

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• The appeal of science fiction has always been its iconoclasm . . . But in order to be an iconoclast, an author must be more than merely aware of the idol he wishes to destroy. He must be intimate with it and understand it in all its aspects. This means that he must have devoted serious thought to it, and have beliefs of his own which will stand up in the place of the broken idol. In other words, any child can complain, but it takes an adult to clash with accepted beliefs . . . an adult with ideas.

  Alfred Bester

  Children, Mean, Order

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• I tried to find something real in essentially something thats science fiction or something-for me, anyways-not having an experience like this.

  Ryan Gosling

  Real, Fiction, Something Real

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• I have always loved science fiction. One of my favorite shows is 'Star Trek.' I like the trips, where it drops my mind off, because they give you a premise and all of a sudden, you say, 'Oh!' and I'm fascinated by it.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Stars, Giving, Mind

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• Apparently I’ve been typecast in science fiction: I’m a Russian bisexual telepathic Jew.

  Claudia Christian

  Bisexual, Fiction, Jew

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

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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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• Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff.

  Joel Edgerton

  Hard Work, Thinking, Fiction

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

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• I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human.

  Joe Morton

  Character, Mean, Thinking

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• I've always been interested in science fiction

  Martin Landau

  Fiction

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• My mom introduced me to science-fiction.

  Logan Marshall-Green

  Mom, Fiction, My Mom

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• I've been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my 'Star Trek' character and I've been turning them down. I strongly feel that the next role I do, I should not be wearing spandex.

  Marina Sirtis

  Stars, Character, Science

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Rod Clark has one of the most unique voices I have ever encountered. I still quote some of his political insights years later. To have him write political science fiction is both appropriate and intriguing.

  Kristine Kathryn Rusch

  Writing, Unique, Years

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• Star Trek, I thought, was a very inconsistent show, which at times sparkled with true ingenuity and pure science fiction approaches, and other times was more carnival-like, and very much more the creature of television than the creature of a legitimate literary form.

  Rod Serling

  Stars, Fiction, Television

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• I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.

  Paul Krugman

  Political, Fiction, Kind

  "Economist Paul Krugman Is a Hard-Core Science Fiction Fan". "Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy" with John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley, www.wired.com. May 30, 2012.

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• People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the time traveler had been only an average history student? What then?

  Tad Williams

  Average, People, What If

  Tad Williams (1998). “Otherland 2: River of Blue Fire”, p.21, Penguin

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• For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.

  C. J. Cherryh

  Art, Fiction, World

  C. J. Cherryh (2005). “The Collected Short Fiction of C.J. Cherryh”, Daw Books

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