Philip Reeve Quotes

Science fiction is an extension of science.

Science fiction is something I never understood.

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.

There is a certain degree of 'steampunkishness' that creeps into my books.

The reason I wanted to do 'The First Men in the Moon' was that there is something so challenging in the combination of space travel and the Edwardian period.

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.

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

General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.

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

It may not be 'mainstream,' but there's always a market for science fiction.

Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.

Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.

I think what I love about science fiction and what sci-fi can be really good at is obviously you're working with outlandish concepts that have very little to do with the real world, like time travel for instance.

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

I love science fiction.

Look, I like to fantasize that there's more to reality than what we have here, and that's why, from a young age, I just loved Philip K. Dick's books.

I like sci-fi.

Science fiction is not formulaic.

I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.

Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.

The more kind of head trippy sci-fi. I always like that. I was a big 'Twilight Zone' freak.

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.

Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics.