Sciencefiction Quotes
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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)
Nothing is deader than yesterday's science-fiction.
— Arthur C. Clarke, The Sands of Mars, 1951.
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.
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)
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
Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.
ray bradbury— The Circus of Dr. Lao Introduction (1956)
