Elizabeth Moon Quotes

The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.

What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if it were - the drawbacks and the positive things.

The entire Internet, as well as the types of devices represented by the desktop computer, the laptop computer, the iPhone, the iPod, and the iPad, are a continuing inescapable embarrassment to science fiction, and an object lesson in the fallibility of genre writers and their vaunted predictive abilities.

But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that.

In 1955, when I'd write a science-fiction novel, I'd set it in the year 2000. I realised around 1977 that, 'My God, it's getting exactly like those novels we used to write in the 1950s!' Everything's just turning out to be real.

Whatever science fiction movies we watch now, we can make the technology real in two days. What we can do is not important. What we should do is more important.

I'm very interested in science fiction, and I like new things. I've never been a really sentimental person.

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from.

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

I don't put a very clear label on my work. If anything, I write science fiction - looking at a moment now, in the present, and then extrapolating outward to think about what the future might look like if this particular trend goes on, or if this particular trend is the most dominant. That's a science fictional tool.

Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future.

I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything.

What seems impossible today, may half a century hence have become commonplace.

When I was a kid, I just figured we'd be living on the moon by the year 2000.

I have this theory about science fiction movies in that, when the space race sort of died, a lot of people sort of lost hope.

I wasn't an avid watcher of the original 'Star Trek.' But they'd pull out this thing to communicate without wires and you thought, 'Yeah, right.' Now... we're doing that with cellphones. So I think our minds are more open to the unimaginable.

The imperative to develop new technologies and implement them on a heroic scale no longer seems like the childish preoccupation of a few nerds with slide rulers - It's the only way for the human race to escape from its current predicaments - Too bad we've forgotten how to do it

I'm not the sort of fellow who does the same thing all the time. I began using a lot of science fiction apparatus. I came out with the atom bomb two years before it was actually used because I read in the paper that a fellow named Nicola Tesla was working on the atom bomb.

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities.

One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

Ours is the first generation that has grown up with science-fiction ideas.

The kingdom of man over nature, which cometh not with observation,--a dominion such as now is beyond his dream of God,--he shall enter without more wonder than the blind man feels who is gradually restored to perfect sight.