Science fiction Quotes

“Nothing is deader than yesterday's science-fiction.”

“People who love science fiction really do love sex.”

“Science-fiction works hand-in-glove with the universe.”

“Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.”

“There is no such thing as science fiction, there is only science eventuality.”

“There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.”

“Like any branch of literature, science fiction reflects the trends of current thinking.”

“Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.”

“Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.”

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

“Science fiction is that branch of literature that deals with human responses to changes in the level of science and technology.”

“Remember that Jules Verne was a sort of Shakespeare of science fiction, and we would feel derelict if we did not give his stories in our columns.”

“It is as romantic myth (“as connoting le roman, or deliberately contrived story”) that I believe science fiction finds its functional definition.”

“Science fiction is the perfect "exploring ground," as it gives us the opportunity to play with different outcomes and strategies before we have to deal with the real-world costs.”

“It is said that science fiction and fantasy are two different things. Science fiction is the improbable made possible, and fantasy is the impossible made probable.”

“Science Fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.”

“I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "Science Fiction" ever since, and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.”

“No less a critic than C. S. Lewis has described the ravenous addiction that these magazines inspired; the same phenomenon has led me to call science fiction the only genuine consciousness-expanding drug.”

“I advance the thesis that science fiction brings teleology to science, tells of origins and destinies, both asserts and denies “the expectancy of the familiar,” is—in brief—both mythopoeic and mythoclastic.”

“the most fruitful ways to approach the future for me are speculative fiction or utopian fiction. Isaac Asimov once said that all science fiction falls into three categories: What if, If only, and If this continues.”