Robert J. Sawyer Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Science fiction is an extension of science.

One of the liberating effects of science fiction when I was a teenager was precisely its ability to tune me into all sorts of strange data and make me realize that I wasn’t as totally isolated in perceiving the world as being monstrous and crazy

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 is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.

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

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.

I believe that science fiction is as profound as you want it to be or it can be very simple entertainment, and I'm all for very simple entertainment. Every now and then we all need to come home, veg-out, watch something and not think too deeply about it. It's what you want it to be. We tend to steer clear of being pedantic; it's entertainment first, otherwise we'd be on a lecture circuit.

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.

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.

Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out there and digging amongst rocks and then trying to convince people that what you're seeing justifies the conclusions you're making.

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.

I like sci-fi that is not entirely impossible.

Science fiction is a unique literature. Science fiction is the first literature that says, 'Tomorrow is going to be different than yesterday, it's going to be a lot different.'

Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable.

Science fiction is something I never understood.

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