Judith Tarr Quotes

Science fiction is about extrapolation, looking back through history, spotting a trend, and predicting where it will go.

I'm a science-fiction fan. All science fiction ends up being reality.

What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future but it's always based on what we have. Then as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas. You know?

Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable.

Science fiction sometimes is fun because it reaches so far in the future.

The genre of science fiction is a fun house, an amusement park ride, but it's also a problem. The question that's always being indirectly asked is this: 'Just who do we think we are and, further, who do we want to be?'

What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future, but it's always based on what we have. Then, as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas.

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.

To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'

Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.

Science fiction's power, if it has any, is that it gives us reasonable extrapolations, not wild and woolly stuff.

Science fiction, as I mentioned before, writes about what is neither impossible nor possible; the fact is that, when the question of possibility comes up in science fiction, the author can only reply that nobody knows. We haven't been there yet. We haven't discovered that yet. Science fiction hasn't happened.

Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.

Science fiction is the very literature of change.

You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now.

It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.

With science fiction there's endless possibilities.

I love the sci-fi world and the way it makes me start to question things.

I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future.

The highest compliment I can give a science fiction book is that it's 'plausibly surreal' - it manages to feel like a relentless extrapolation from today even as it overwhelms with unexpected consequences of that extrapolation.

I read so much science fiction when I was young. I believe science fiction is the genre for exploration and to learn about possibilities via book.

The possibilities in sci-fi are wonderful. The subject is bigger than everything we know.

Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.