Brian Aldiss Quotes

Sci-fi uses the images that sf - starting with H.G. Wells - made familiar: space travel, aliens, galactic wars and federations, time machines, et cetera, taking them literally, not caring if they are possible or even plausible. It has no interest in or relation to real science or technology. It's fantasy in space suits. Spectacle. Wizards with lasers. Kids with ray guns. I've written both, but I have to say I respect science fiction enough that I wince when people call it sci-fi.

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.

I love science fiction.

I love sci-fi and fantasy.

I love science fiction.

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.

I think I wanna do some action stuff down the road. I wanna kill some aliens. Something real fun, you know? Just a big, fun movie.

I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.

In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

When I was making 'Star Wars,' I wasn't restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, 'I'm going to create a world that's fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.'

It's great to be able to work on some science fiction. I love the genre.

I was never a fan of sci-fi or space stuff.

I've always loved sci-fi and fantasy.

To me, sci-fi has the most amazing style.

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

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 fantasy with bolts painted on outside.

Everybody always talks about the science fiction genre, in particular, which always makes me think about people in spaceships. I can appreciate that, but that's not really where I think my dramatist aspect lies.

You mean old books?" "Stories written before space travel but about space travel." "How could there have been stories about space travel before --" "The writers," Pris said, "made it up.

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.