Joanna Russ Quotes

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

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 field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

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 writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.

When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field.

The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.

Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.

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

I think science fiction gives us a wonderful toolkit to disassemble and reexamine this kind of incomprehensible, constantly changing present that we live in, that we often live in quite uncomfortably.

I probably spend more time writing than reading science fiction. I find that science-fiction literature is so reactive to all the literature that's gone before that it's sort of like a fractal. It's gone to a level of detail that the average person could not possibly follow unless you're a fan. It iterates upon many prior generations of iterations.

I'm a big fan of science fiction, animation, and things of that nature. Other worlds and that type of stuff.

Attempting to define science fiction is an undertaking almost as difficult, though not so popular, as trying to define pornography... In both pornography and SF, the problem lies in knowing exactly where to draw the line.

You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history

Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.

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

Science fiction can be exciting and very gripping, but it doesn't tell us anything about the universe in which we live.

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

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.

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

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

Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.