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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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• The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Science, Views, Long

  "Sheri S. Tepper: Speaking to the Universe". www.locusmag.com. September 1998.

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• Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

  Rudy Rucker

  Play, Ideas, Fiction

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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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• So much American science fiction is parochial - not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less like ours, and with the same ideals, the same notions of how to do things, just bigger and flashier technology. Well, you know darn well it doesn't work that way.

  Poul Anderson

  Technology, Years, Way

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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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• 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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• The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion

  Donna J. Haraway

  Reality, Fiction, Optical Illusions

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• Science fiction doesn’t try to predict the future, but rather offers a significant distortion of the present…We sit around and look at what we see around us and we say how can the world be different

  Samuel R. Delany

  Trying, Different, Looks

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• Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

  A. E. van Vogt

  Writing, Printed Word, People

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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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• Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Fiction, Ninety, Percent

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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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• 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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• The decline in American pride, patriotism, and piety can be directly
  attributed to the extensive reading of so-called 'science fiction' by our
  young people. This poisonous rot about creatures not of God's making,
  societies of 'aliens' without a good Christian among them, and raw sex
  between unhuman beings with three heads and God alone knows what sort of
  reproductive apparatus keeps our young people from realizing the true will
  of God.

  Jerry Falwell

  Christian, Sex, Reading

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• The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different.

  Neal Stephenson

  Mean, Different, Fiction

  Interview with Catherine Asaro, www.sfsite.com. September 1999.

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