Pamela Dean Quotes

I know that by the time I was in middle school, Andre Norton was definitely my favorite author.

I've never really been into the sci-fi genre myself.

I like sci-fi.

Science fiction has always had a dark side. There has been a touch of the irrational and absurd in the genre from the very beginning.

I'm a huge fan of classic sci-fi.

When I was fifteen, my father gave me a first edition copy of Ray Bradbury's magnificent work, 'The Martian Chronicles.' I had read other science fiction by noted authors, but this book was something else altogether.

I want to do science fiction with dark stories.

I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't wait for the future when the special effects are good' to represent what was in these books by Arthur C. Clarke, Alfred Bester, Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard, Jack Vance.

Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.

Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.

Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.

I quite enjoy science fiction.

I hope that 'House of Suns' functions as an independent novel.

Science fiction has never been about the future; it's always been about the present day whether it's Victorian England that Wells was writing about or the post-9/11 era that I'm writing about.

'2001: A Space Odyssey' is a movie that really impressed me as a teenager. And also 'Blade Runner.' And 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is also one of my favorites. I'm always looking for sci-fi material, and it's difficult to find original and strong material that's not just about weaponry.

When I first started, my novels were set in the far future.

I was really impressed by '2312.'

I was a big fan of sci-fi.

It seems like the reason that I miss the science fiction from the late '70s and '80s is that at that period, they really were doing interesting, introspective human stories that just happened to take place in science fiction settings.

Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.

Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us.

What science-fiction premises do is it gives you a "what-if" prism to look at the contemporary world with a wack on the side of the head.

The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.

[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth.