Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible. Votes: 6
Rod SerlingIf science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. Votes: 6
Ursula K. Le GuinPoliticians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. Votes: 4
Arthur C. ClarkeYou don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion. Votes: 4
L. Ron HubbardGeoff Nelder inhabits Science Fiction the way other people inhabit their clothes. Votes: 3
Jon Courtenay GrimwoodFantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible. Votes: 3
Rod SterlingScience Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality. Votes: 3
Ray BradburyI was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady. Votes: 3
Kurt VonnegutOf the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy. Votes: 3
Jean M. AuelI read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel. Votes: 0
Martin Lewis PerlScience fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities. Votes: 0
Miriam Allen de FordFirst-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art. Votes: 0
Clive JamesFantasy deals with the immeasurable while science-fiction deals with the measurable. Votes: 0
Walter WangerinNo matter what decade science fiction comes from, it's representing the present. Votes: 0
Don HertzfeldtMoonshots live in that place between audacious projects and pure science fiction. Votes: 0
Astro TellerRichard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene is a classic example of science fiction. Votes: 0
Pope Benedict XVII was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels. Votes: 0
Matthew Tobin AndersonThe boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion Votes: 0
Donna J. HarawayScience to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction. Votes: 0
Leonard SusskindQuestions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction. Votes: 0
Saul SteinbergReal science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying. Votes: 0
Stephen HawkingMy briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.' Votes: 0
Brian AldissScience fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience. Votes: 0
Paolo BacigalupiIn science-fiction films the monster should always be bigger than the leading lady. Votes: 0
Roger CormanToday's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago. Votes: 0
Tony ViscontiScience fiction is not necessarily either fiction or anything to do with science. Votes: 0
Judith MerrilI'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer. Votes: 0
China MievilleA lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction. Votes: 0
Frederik PohlWhat got my interested in science fiction was actually the American space program. Votes: 0
Ronald D. MooreThe science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking. Votes: 0
Paul KrugmanEvery day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness. Votes: 0
Tom DeLongeThere is no such thing as science fiction, there is only science eventuality. Votes: 0
Steven SpielbergScience fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet. Votes: 0
Jack McDevittIn science fiction, we're always searching for new frontiers. We're drawn to the unknown. Votes: 0
Ridley ScottThe dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors. Votes: 0
Vernor VingeEven people that were never interested in science fiction are interested in STAR TREK. Votes: 0
Michael DornI started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction. Votes: 0
Neil Gaiman[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth. Votes: 0
Northrop FryeScience fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet. Votes: 0
Vinton CerfScience fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets. Votes: 0
Margaret AtwoodScience fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe. Votes: 0
Paul Di FilippoStarring in a science fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction. Votes: 0
Harrison FordThere is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now. Votes: 0
Allen GinsbergFor books, I don't read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science. Votes: 0
Dennis RitchieI've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business. Votes: 0
Robert ReedApparently Iâve been typecast in science fiction: Iâm a Russian bisexual telepathic Jew. Votes: 0
Claudia ChristianScience fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts. Votes: 0
Brian AldissI think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Votes: 0
William GibsonFantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen. Votes: 0
Ray BradburyA science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic. Votes: 0
Robert J. SawyerOnce confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem. Votes: 0
Michio KakuIf you take the shackles off your imagination, you can go anywhere with science fiction. Votes: 0
Lani TupuScience fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts. Votes: 0
Brian AldissEvery moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building. Votes: 0
M. John HarrisonI think you can get away with being a bit more political in science fiction. Votes: 0
Rupert SandersBefore I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd. Votes: 0
Max BrooksIt's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction. Votes: 0
Cory DoctorowThere are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women. Votes: 0
Joanna RussI'm a huge science fiction fan, and I'm a huge fan of J. Michael Straczynski. Votes: 0
Jamie ClaytonI've loved science fiction my whole life. But I've never made a science fiction movie. Votes: 0
Don HertzfeldtScience fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be. Votes: 0
Orson Scott CardI hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That's the pitch. We'll see. Votes: 0
Kurt VonnegutArchaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future. Votes: 0
Joan D. VingeIn really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry. Votes: 0
Damon LindelofActually, I'm addicted to science fiction. Let me make my diction clear - I love sci-fi. Votes: 0
John Rhys-DaviesScience fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens. Votes: 0
Rudy RuckerI was always fascinated by science-fiction shows, shows like 'Star Trek' and 'Lost in Space.' Votes: 0
Michael P. AndersonNinety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud. Votes: 0
Theodore SturgeonScience fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy. Votes: 0
Robert ReedScience fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that. Votes: 0
Margaret AtwoodMy music is pretty honest. I can't rap on science fiction. Punk is from the street. Votes: 0
Rick JamesI don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything. Votes: 0
Sigourney WeaverArt sometimes imitates life. When it does, science fiction presages what form that life may take. Votes: 0
Alan JoshuaImagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction. Votes: 0
Jimi HendrixThere's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons. Votes: 0
Fred SaberhagenWhen I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves. Votes: 0
Terry PratchettThe most visceral science fiction always takes place in the past and focuses on the humdrum Votes: 0
Dean CavanaghI was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things. Votes: 0
David HansonI grew up watching science fiction and action movies. I love it. I absolutely love it! Votes: 0
Katee SackhoffThe only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers. Votes: 0
Sheri S. TepperI'm sure there's an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer. Votes: 0
Neil GaimanIt's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does. Votes: 0
Daniel Keys MoranWith science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be. Votes: 0
Dwight SchultzI think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters. Votes: 0
Ivan ReitmanScience fiction is one of the smartest genres around because you have to have so much forethought. Votes: 0
Amanda SchullPsychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction. We live in a space ship, dear. Votes: 0
Joss WhedonA good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam. Votes: 0
Frederik PohlI like science fiction. I took all the accelerated classes in school. I'm kind of a dork. Votes: 0
Anson MountI define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Votes: 0
Ray BradburyI was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer. Votes: 0
Brian AldissI first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old. Votes: 0
A. E. van VogtOne of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments. Votes: 0
Rudy RuckerThe fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do. Votes: 0
Lindsay WagnerFantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it. Votes: 0
Katharine KerrThe function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it. Votes: 0
Frank HerbertI would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction. Votes: 0
Neil LaButeDoes it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth? Votes: 0
Robert Charles WilsonScience fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere. Votes: 0
Octavia ButlerI've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was. Votes: 0
J. Michael StraczynskiNow, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail. Votes: 0
Rudy RuckerHollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is. Votes: 0
Octavia E. ButlerMen read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future. Votes: 0
Ray BradburyIf you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake. Votes: 0
Joss WhedonI just think the whole disease model of addiction is crap. It's rooted in fiction and junk science. Votes: 0
Charlie SheenI love the early films of Al Pacino - 'Scarface,' 'Serpico' - and I love many science-fiction films. Votes: 0
Ornella MutiPeople as me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research. Votes: 0
Frederik PohlI think one of the big challenges about science fiction is finding truth to relate to as an actor. Votes: 0
Amanda SchullI just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me. Votes: 0
Steven SpielbergPeople ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research. Votes: 0
Frederik PohlTo me, it's science fiction for me to do the things I've been blessed to do in this industry. Votes: 0
Will SmithI've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic. Votes: 0
Dan AykroydI read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books. Votes: 0
Mark HaddonI grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist. Votes: 0
MobyI'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared. Votes: 0
Michael SheenNo one ever got into science fiction for the sex or prestige. They got into it because they love it. Votes: 0
China MievilleI am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck. Votes: 0
Ray BradburyI think if I did do something in another genre, it would be science fiction; I'm a big sci fi nerd. Votes: 0
Allen CovertI think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do. Votes: 0
Ridley Scott