Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

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 not prescriptive; it is descriptive.

Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us.

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.

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

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

Attempting to define science fiction is an undertaking almost as difficult, though not so popular, as trying to define pornography... In both pornography and SF, the problem lies in knowing exactly where to draw the line.

Science fiction is the branch of literature that deals with the effects of change on people in the real world as it can be projected into the past, the future, or to distant places. It often concerns itself with scientific or technological change, and it usually involves matters whose importance is greater than the individual or the community; often civilization or the race itself is in danger.

Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in 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.

You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history

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.

The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.

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

My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'

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

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.

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

Most of my work is science fiction, with many a spaceship but few cars.

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

I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane.

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