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I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.


China Mieville
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
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I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.


Steven Spielberg
What I perceive in science fiction is that it's more about how everything looks than what's going on, which I think is just difficult if you're an action character. I think they are about character, not about what it looks like.
Sigourney Weaver
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In science fiction, we're always searching for new frontiers. We're drawn to the unknown.


Ridley Scott
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
I want to go down in the history books as one of the greatest female boxers of all time, and I think I'm on the right path.
Katie Taylor
I think there's always been a traditionally apocalyptic side to British science fiction, from H.G. Wells onwards. I mean, most of Wells' stories are potentially apocalyptic in some sense or another.
Alan Moore
I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human.
Joe Morton
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I'm a massive science fiction and fantasy geek.


Robert Kazinsky
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It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.


Frederik Pohl
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Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.


Greg Bear
I'm not opposed to doing science fiction or comedy, but there has to be respect. I refuse to be the joke, the fat woman joke, in any movie. I've turned down roles.
Darlene Cates
If I want to speculate wildly about the future, I have my science fiction. Anybody who tells you they can predict the future is either crazy or lying.
Karl Schroeder
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
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Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.


Anna Torv
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Science fiction has traditionally been economically naive, with a strong libertarian streak, which I think is like a crude Leninism. That's attractive because it could be used to explain everything, and if only we lived by its tenets, everything would be perfect.
Charles Stross
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In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.


Damon Lindelof
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Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.


Doris Lessing
Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
Barbara Kingsolver
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