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I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of. -- Jerry Pournelle
Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes. -- William Gibson
I can list on one hand the famous science fiction writers I never met. -- Robert Silverberg
Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet. -- Jack McDevitt
The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors. -- Vernor Vinge
The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers. -- Sheri S. Tepper
Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens. -- Rudy Rucker
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. -- Isaac Asimov
I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things. -- Walter Mosley
I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William Gibson is one of my favorite writers. -- Tahmoh Penikett
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. -- Philip K. Dick
Maybe the search for life shouldn't restrict attention to planets like Earth. Science fiction writers have other ideas: balloon-like creatures floating in the dense atmospheres of planets such as Jupiter, swarms of intelligent insects, nano-scale robots and more. -- Martin Rees
Technically and logically speaking, actual Victorian science fiction writers cannot be dubbed 'steampunks.' Although they utilized many of the same tropes and touchstones employed later by twenty-first-century writers of steampunk, in their contemporary hands these devices represented state-of-the-art speculation. -- Paul Di Filippo
Many science fiction writers are literary autodidacts who focus on the genre primarily as a literature of ideas rather than as a pure art form or a tool for the introspective examination of the human condition. I'm not entirely at ease with that self-description. -- Charles Stross
It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff. -- Terry Pratchett
We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that. -- Kevin J. Anderson
Many fiction writers who put the science in dont get it right. -- Kathy Reichs
Many fiction writers who put the science in don't get it right. -- Kathy Reichs
Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. -- Philip K. Dick
Science fiction is the only genre that enables African writers to envision a future from our African perspective. -- Nnedi Okorafor
All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction. -- Alan Lightman
I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things." â?? Associated Press interview, 12-7-11 -- Walter Mosley
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Here's a quick rule of thumb: Don't annoy science fiction writers. These are people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of what they'll do to you. -- John Scalzi
Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothing against them. I'm sure they do great work. But they're not scientists. They're clueless. -- Michio Kaku
There's always been a little bit of tension between the writers of science fiction literature and then science-fiction televised shows or movies, partly because they have a different dynamic. -- John Scalzi
Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value, but psychologists say it is a fantasy based on ruling-class ego and guilt. -- Gloria Steinem

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