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'Alien' is a landmark. One of the really good science-fiction films. -- Ridley Scott
Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction. -- Saul Steinberg
I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That's the pitch. We'll see. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd. -- Max Brooks
When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves. -- Terry Pratchett
I was always fascinated by science-fiction shows, shows like 'Star Trek' and 'Lost in Space.' -- Michael P. Anderson
I sing about UFOs and extraterrestrials, and so I designed a UFO fashion. It includes science-fiction bikinis and Bermuda Triangle shorts. -- Nina Hagen
The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden. -- John Podhoretz
I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The X-Files.' -- Chris Carter
I've only written one science-fiction book: 'Fahrenheit 451.' That book is a book based on real facts and my hatred of people who destroy books. -- Ray Bradbury
I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative. -- Zoe Saldana
Making a living out of acting sounded like science-fiction when I was growing up. I didn't know anyone around me who lived from anything related to art. -- Penelope Cruz
Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn't have the answers. -- Roger Ebert
I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that. -- Gary Oldman
I'm tired of being considered a lesbian writer, tired of being a science-fiction writer, tired of being a thriller writer. I'm a writer. Period. Story matters to me. -- Nicola Griffith
A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre. -- J. Michael Straczynski
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
The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology. -- Jayne Ann Krentz
Usually the science-fiction fan has some indication they're a sci-fi fan and, therefore, a 'Stargate' fan. In other words, they could be wearing a rubber head or some kind of costume or just a T-shirt that gives them away. -- Richard Dean Anderson
My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time. -- Rainn Wilson
I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do 'Harry Potter' or anything like that. Even when I did science-fiction, I didn't write about foreign planets and distant futures. I certainly never did fantasies about trolls living under bridges. -- Richard Matheson
The concept of the robot encapsulates both aspects of technology. On one hand it's cool, it's fun, it's healthy, it's sexy, it's stylish. On the other hand it's terrifying, it's alienating, it's addictive, and it's scary. That has been the subject of much science-fiction literature. -- Thomas Bangalter
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. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved. -- Alan Dean Foster
When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents' boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing 'Amazing Stories,' with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination. -- Ray Bradbury
Mining asteroids is a well-oiled trope of science-fiction. But someday, actually doing it will make economic sense. Many of the essential metals of our society, such as platinum, copper and zinc, are rapidly becoming scarce. The asteroids might offer a replacement supply, providing the materials our descendants will need for a high quality life. -- Seth Shostak
I had to jump around in the arts for a while just to survive. I earned a little money here and there, playing the guitar at union meetings, functions. I sold some science-fiction stories. I knew there was absolutely no question of me not being connected with the arts, but I couldn't find any acting jobs. -- Alan Arkin
I hate science fiction. -- James Dyson
I love science fiction. -- Moon Bloodgood
I don't read Science Fiction. -- Brent Spiner
I quite enjoy science fiction. -- Lexa Doig
My mom introduced me to science-fiction. -- Logan Marshall-Green
I'm a huge science fiction fan. -- Emma Caulfield
With science fiction there's endless possibilities. -- Anna Torv
Science Fiction: fairy tales for nerds. -- Richard Bayan
I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast. -- Ivan Reitman
I've always been interested in science fiction -- Martin Landau
Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees. -- Orson Scott Card
Today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact. -- Isaac Asimov
I do love science-fiction and horror movies. -- Nicolas Ghesquiere
Science fiction still is an idea genre. -- Sheri S. Tepper
Science fiction is an extension of science. -- Len Wiseman
Science Fiction is the jazz of literature. -- David Brin
I do enjoy reading some science fiction. -- Colin Farrell
I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek. -- China Mieville
Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
I've called science fiction 'reality ahead of schedule' -- Syd Mead
Science fiction is the agent provocateur of literature. -- Dana Stabenow
The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction. -- Frederik Pohl
Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense. -- Alfred Bester
Science fiction is very healthy in its form. -- Robert Sheckley
Science Fiction: Any scientific acclaim that omits God -- Johnny Hart
Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate. -- Greg Bear
Science Fiction is a branch of children's literature. -- Thomas M. Disch
Science fiction is anything published as science fiction. -- Norman Spinrad
I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction. -- Frederik Pohl
Science fiction is the very literature of change. -- Frederik Pohl
I was always attracted to science fiction movies -- Tina Turner
Im a massive science fiction and fantasy geek. -- Robert Kazinsky
The Golden Age of science fiction is thirteen. -- Terry Carr
I'm a massive science fiction and fantasy geek. -- Robert Kazinsky
Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation. -- Michael Dirda
I was a very keen reader of science fiction. -- Terry Pratchett
I want to do science fiction with dark stories. -- Kim Ji-woon
Science fiction tends to be philosophy for stupid people. -- Chuck Klosterman
Farscape is not what you call hard science fiction. -- Ben Browder
Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside. -- Terry Pratchett
I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel. -- Martin Lewis Perl
I think science fiction is very bad at prediction. -- China Mieville
I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist. -- Michio Kaku
Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives. -- Marie Lu
People who love science fiction really do love sex. -- Susie Bright
Farscape' is not what you call hard science fiction. -- Ben Browder
Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock. -- Alvin Toffler
Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities. -- Miriam Allen de Ford
Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off. -- Ray Bradbury
I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway. -- Nigel Kneale
Science fiction and comedy are generally a pretty bumpy mix. -- Matt Groening
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. -- Arthur C. Clarke
Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes. -- William Gibson
I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction. -- Richard Dawkins
As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction. -- Buzz Aldrin
It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations. -- Frederik Pohl
'Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction. -- Mark Hamill
Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction. -- Mark Hamill
I was a science fiction junkie for a long time. -- William Hurt
When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction. -- Steven Wright
Science fiction is for real, space opera is for fun. -- Brian Aldiss
Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future. -- Clifton Fadiman
The past is fantasy, and the future is science fiction. -- T.L. Rese
I'm pretty sure my love affair with science-fiction started with ET. -- Shiloh Walker
Alien' is a landmark. One of the really good science-fiction films. -- Ridley Scott
I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first. -- Terry Pratchett
I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane. -- Alice Hoffman
In science fiction a fantastic event or development is considered rationally. -- James Gunn
I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction. -- Steven Spielberg
Comics also led a lot of young people to science fiction. -- Kerry James Marshall
Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre. -- Anna Torv
I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction. -- Romola Garai
In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities. -- Theodore Sturgeon
Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time. -- Doris Lessing
First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art. -- Clive James
Fantasy deals with the immeasurable while science-fiction deals with the measurable. -- Walter Wangerin
When I die, I'm gonna leave my body to science fiction. -- Steven Wright
I was raised on comic books, and I love science fiction. -- Mayim Bialik
I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing. -- Yancy Butler
Yeah I loved, as a kid growing up, I loved science-fiction. -- Jeff Bridges
Ours is the first generation that has grown up with science-fiction ideas. -- Carl Sagan
Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene is a classic example of science fiction. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities. -- Iain Banks
Geoff Nelder inhabits Science Fiction the way other people inhabit their clothes. -- Jon Courtenay Grimwood
I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels. -- Matthew Tobin Anderson
Moonshots live in that place between audacious projects and pure science fiction. -- Astro Teller
The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion -- Donna J. Haraway
Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction. -- Leonard Susskind
No matter what decade science fiction comes from, it's representing the present. -- Don Hertzfeldt
Many fiction writers who put the science in dont get it right. -- Kathy Reichs
I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole. -- Robert Sheckley
Science fiction is what I point at when I say science fiction. -- Damon Knight
Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it. -- Denis Leary
Many fiction writers who put the science in don't get it right. -- Kathy Reichs

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