Joshua Foer Quotes

From the viewpoint of the writer, the most significant aspect of fantasy and science fiction is that stories of these kinds are either set in imaginary worlds or feature the appearance in the familiar world of some imaginary entity.

To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.

I am a sci-fi fan.

I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, I'm afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me more freedom. It just seemed like I belonged there.

I've done a lot of books with Asian antecedents to them - some of my fantasy novels have been that way, and certainly in the 'Battletech' universe, there's a lot of Asian culture in that.

The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language.

I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.

If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.

I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.

I'm a huge sci-fi/fantasy/horror guy. I love anything in the sci-fi or fantasy genre.

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

Science fiction is about worlds you don't know and worlds you can create, like in 'Avatar'.

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

I'm a big fan of superheroes and fantasy and sci-fi. I have been since I was a child.

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.

'Doctor Who' is part of my science fictional DNA. You could take it out of me, and I'd probably still have ended up being a writer, but almost certainly not the same one.

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 always was passionate about science fiction and horror, and my parents enjoyed that as well.

I read anything and everything. Comfort food for my brain is fantasy fiction or science fiction.

I have read the 'Divergent' series. I obviously read 'Harry Potter.'

Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown out of enjoying the strange and weird.

I'm not really interested in the exploding car or endless sort of dystopian fantasies and superheroes. None of that... that doesn't interest me very much.

The problems of inventing a new language are staggering. But what else can one do if one needs to express one's feeling precisely?

Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.

I loved The Weird (one of the stories in it inspired Blackalley in Discourse).