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I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek. -- China Mieville
I'm a massive science fiction and fantasy geek. -- Robert Kazinsky
The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared. -- Michael Sheen
I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk. -- Gail Carriger
Filk' is the folk music of the science fiction and fantasy community - you get parodies, you get traditional music that's had the words slightly modified, and you'll also get just original works that have been written about science fiction and fantasy works, or with science fiction and fantasy themes. -- Seanan McGuire
Im a massive science fiction and fantasy geek. -- Robert Kazinsky
Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
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In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal. -- Hari Kunzru
I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff. -- Gail Carriger
I don't really consider my work, on the whole, 'fringe' in my own mind; science fiction and fantasy have been pretty solidly in the mainstream for a while. -- Jacqueline Carey
I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise. It's the stuff that I love writing about. I like creating worlds. -- David S. Goyer
As a senior editor at Tor Books and the manager of our science fiction and fantasy line, I rarely blog to promote specific projects I'm involved with, for reasons that probably don't need a lot of explanation. -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden
What we've done is make the categories of science fiction and fantasy larger, freer, and more inclusive than any other genre of contemporary literature. We have room for everybody, and we are extraordinarily open to genuine experimentation. -- Orson Scott Card
I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrote children's stories. She was polite about the science fiction and fantasy that I kept handing in, but she finally asked in exasperation, 'Can't you write anything normal?' -- Octavia E. Butler
One of the most interesting things about science fiction and fantasy is the way that the genres can offer different perspectives on matters to do with the body, the mind, medical technology, and the way we live our lives. -- Tansy Rayner Roberts
Oh, I'm nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I'm nerdy about board games. My favorite board game is a board game I'm working on right now. It's a game of Napoleonic era naval warfare, and it's going to be fun. -- Billy Campbell
At some point, every science fiction and fantasy story must challenge the reader's experience and learning. That's much of the reason why the genre is so open to experimentation and innovation that other genres reject--strangeness is our bread and butter. Spread it thick or slice it thin, it's still our staff of life. -- Orson Scott Card
I grew up a really nerdy kid. I read science fiction and fantasy voraciously, for the first 16 years of my life. I read a lot of classic Cold War science fiction, which is much of the best science fiction, so I speak the language well, which is a commodity that's not easy to come by in Hollywood. -- Jon Spaihts
Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives. -- Marie Lu
I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels. -- Matthew Tobin Anderson
My parents are both huge science-fiction and fantasy fans - I was fed it. -- Carrie Vaughn
When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves. -- Terry Pratchett
There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons. -- Fred Saberhagen
My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction. -- Michael Sheen
I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror. -- Sarah Zettel
Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction. -- George R. R. Martin
Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati. -- China Mieville
And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy. -- Octavia Butler
We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it. -- Jerry Pournelle
So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy. -- Octavia Butler
Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on. -- R. A. Salvatore
Science fiction is fantasy about issues of science. Science fiction is a subset of fantasy. Fantasy predated it by several millennia. The '30s to the '50s were the golden age of science fiction - this was because, to a large degree, it was at this point that technology and science had exposed its potential without revealing the limitations. -- Raymond E. Feist
Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees. -- Orson Scott Card
Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside. -- Terry Pratchett
The past is fantasy, and the future is science fiction. -- T.L. Rese
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
Fantasy deals with the immeasurable while science-fiction deals with the measurable. -- Walter Wangerin
Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible. -- Rod Serling
Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible. -- Rod Serling
Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible. -- Rod Serling
Once it gets off the ground into space, all science fiction is fantasy. -- J. G. Ballard
Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be. -- Orson Scott Card
Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem. -- Michio Kaku
Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy. -- Jean M. Auel
Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy. -- Robert Reed
Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it. -- Katharine Kerr
I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. -- Ray Bradbury
There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person. -- Elizabeth Moon
A rustic setting always suggests fantasy; to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets. -- Orson Scott Card
I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy. -- Lois Lowry
I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies. -- Nicolas Cage
Science fiction is when we see into the future of our planet, fantasy is when we believe humanity will survive. -- Kaz Lefave
I am undependable. You might get gritty contemporary with one book, science fiction, magical realism, or high fantasy with another. -- Mary E. Pearson
I love fairytales. I like fantasy a lot, science fiction, I like magic. I like to create magic. I love magic. -- Michael Jackson
[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention. -- Jack Williamson
I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy. -- Ray Bradbury
I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck. -- Ray Bradbury
It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse. -- Mike Lee
Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of 'Star Wars.' -- Brian K. Vaughan
I read mostly science-fiction and fantasy when I was a teenager, and I was always drawn to stories where the characters had telepathic powers. -- Ruth Glick
I like working closely with artists. I think that's very important in fantasy and science fiction - the visual aspect of the worlds and the characters. -- Margaret Weis
Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction. -- Joshua Foer
When I write my books, actually, I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction. -- Brandon Sanderson
I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past? -- Rainbow Rowell
I read fiction all the time. It's true that I don't like fantasy or science fiction. I like "realistic" novels, particularly those in which nothing much ever happens. -- Gustavo Perez Firmat
I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill. -- J. K. Rowling
It's ironic: In movies, the most successful films of all time have been sci-fi or fantasy. By far. But a lot of people won't even read science fiction books. -- David S. Goyer
I didn't read comic books, growing up. I was more of a science fiction/fantasy novel guy. I loved reading Edgar Rice Burroughs' 'Tarzan' and that kind of stuff. -- Jesse L. Martin
Fantasy and science fiction stories are very applicable to talking to your children about the world. They tend to talk about the big questions regarding life and the universe. -- Stephen H. Segal
It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction. -- Randy Alcorn

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