Will Shetterly Quotes

Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy.

I like sci-fi.

I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.

I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.

I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do 'Harry Potter' or anything like that. Even when I did science-fiction, I didn't write about foreign planets and distant futures. I certainly never did fantasies about trolls living under bridges.

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

I'm a sci-fi guy. But I like fantasy too.

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.

I love sci-fi and fantasy.

Really, if I'm honest, sci-fi is where my sensibility instinctively goes - I'm a big comic-book fan.

It's the imagination that is involved in sci-fi, and fantasy is what draws me to it. Stories, everything.

I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.

Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.

I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.

I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.

I quite enjoy science fiction.

I'm a massive science fiction and fantasy geek.

Science fiction is an extension of science.

It's great to be able to work on some science fiction. I love the genre.

In a sense, fantasy is a freer play of the imagination. You can achieve exactly the situation you want with less groundwork, less of a need to fill in all of the background. For science fiction, I would use a lot of sources to set up, for instance, what a being from another planet would be like.

There are similarities between historical novels and science fiction. Being thrown into the Napoleonic Wars is just as much of a different world as space.

I love the 'what if' nature of sci-fi.

I've always loved sci-fi and fantasy.

I have a long love of fantasy and science-fiction.

We range widely, we readers of fiction, but I think we all need a home. Mine is science fiction. It's my home shelf, my homeland, my home planet, my essential genre.