Douglas Lain Quotes

I quite enjoy science fiction.

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

I like sci-fi.

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.

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

I love sci-fi and fantasy.

I don't read Science Fiction.

Science fiction is an extension of science.

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

I have a long love of fantasy and science-fiction.

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

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.

Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.

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.

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 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.

The SF genre, of course, is really an organically evolved, marketplace-determined, idiosyncratic grab bag of themes and signifiers and characters and icons and gadgets, some of which hew to the realistic parameters and paradigms embraced by science, others of which partake more of fantasy and magic.

I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we really are and to see ourselves from another perspective.

Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.

I like sci-fi that is not entirely impossible.