Rudy Rucker Quotes

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

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

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 becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.

Science fiction is an extension of science.

Science fiction is about things that plausibly might happen. Grounding my work in the real world helps make that clear.

Science fiction to me is the ultimate art form, because it speculates on bodies and worlds that don't exist.

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 the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.

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.

The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.

Science fiction is not formulaic.

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.

Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.

Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.

Science fiction writers aren't in the prediction business; they're in the speculation business, using 'hasn't happened' or 'hasn't happened yet' to create entertaining scenarios that may or may not anticipate future realities.

One of the things that science fiction gets to do is thought experiments about the human condition that would be impractical or unethical to conduct in real life.

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

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 essentially a kind of fiction in which people learn more about how to live in the real world, visiting imaginary worlds unlike our own in order to investigate, by way of pleasurable thought-experiments, how things might be done differently.

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 the jazz of literature.