Robert J. Sawyer Quotes

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

I was really interested in doing a really science fiction-based story because it's something I feel like I hadn't done yet.

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

I like sci-fi.

I was always attracted to science fiction movies.

I've always been a fan of science fiction.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable.

Science fiction has always used metaphors and disguises, talking about alien civilizations or the future.

Most fiction says you may or may not be alive tomorrow; science fiction talks often about the future.

I'm a fan of hard science fiction, which is science fiction that is possible.

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.

Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.

Literary science fiction is a very, very narrow band of the publishing business. I love science fiction in more of a pop-culture sense. And by the way, the line between science fiction and reality has blurred a lot in my life doing deep ocean expeditions and working on actual space projects and so on. So I tend to be more fascinated by the reality of the science-fiction world in which we live.

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.

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.

I have always loved science fiction. One of my favorite shows is 'Star Trek.' I like the trips, where it drops my mind off, because they give you a premise and all of a sudden, you say, 'Oh!' and I'm fascinated by it.

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

Seeing the space future through science fiction can be difficult. Much science fiction of the early era, the 1950s through the '70s, took an expansionist view.

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.

The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.

Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't wait for the future when the special effects are good' to represent what was in these books by Arthur C. Clarke, Alfred Bester, Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard, Jack Vance.