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The opening screen of T’Rain was a frank rip-off of what you saw when you booted up Google Earth. Richard felt no guilt about this, since he had heard that Google Earth, in turn, was based on an idea from some old science-fiction novel.
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Science-fiction works hand-in-glove with the universe.


— Ray Bradbury, "Introduction" in The Circus of Dr. Lao and Other Improbable Stories (1956)

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Nothing is deader than yesterday's science-fiction.


— Arthur C. Clarke, The Sands of Mars, 1951.

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I like to present my characters whether they are in the past or in the future with interesting moral choices, and it seems to me that science-fiction writers are, or should be, the prophets and moralists of today. I am fairly well up on the biological sciences, but I am deeply uninterested in gadgets. A writer's job is to write about people with sympathy and insight.


— Naomi Mitchison, in Anthony Wolk, "Challenge the Boundaries: An Overview of Science Fiction and Fantasy," The English Journal 79 (1990), p. 27.

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Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.

alan moore

— "The Mustard magazine interview" (January 2005)

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The oft-heard comment that Leonardo [da Vinci]'s genius managed to transcend the culture of his time is amply justified. But his was not a science-fiction voyage into the future as much as a plunge into the past.

lucio russo

— 11.2, "The Renaissance", p. 336

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Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.

ray bradbury

— The Circus of Dr. Lao Introduction (1956)

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