Samuel R. Delany Quotes

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

Science fiction is an extension of science.

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

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

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

That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change. Science fiction is the very literature of change. In fact, it is the only such literature we have.

Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about.

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, 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.

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.

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.

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.

Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.

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.

I like sci-fi that is not entirely impossible.

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.

When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions.

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

Science fiction is one of the smartest genres around because you have to have so much forethought.

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

For me, the distant future and far-off galaxies is where it's at. That's where my imagination can really come out to play.

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

I've always loved sci-fi and fantasy.

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

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.