Rudy Rucker Quotes

Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.

I like sci-fi.

I like to think readers appreciate a well-drawn near-future as well as a well-drawn far-future.

Science fiction is huge and varied, and there's almost any sort of book or story you might imagine.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable.

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

Science fiction is one of the smartest genres around because you have to have so much forethought.

In a sense, fantasy is a freer play of the imagination. You can achieve exactly the situation you want with less groundwork, less of a need to fill in all of the background. For science fiction, I would use a lot of sources to set up, for instance, what a being from another planet would be like.

I've always loved far future SF, so it was more or less a given that I would one day want to write in that form.

Because I grew up on 'Star Wars', that was the best example of creating a full and rich world to me as a writer. When I was watching those movies as a kid, I wanted to know more about every damn character in that universe. There was always a hint that there was a story there that you just weren't getting to see.

I was a big fan of sci-fi.

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

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.

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 is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.

I'm a huge fan of classic sci-fi.

It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.

I want to do science fiction with dark stories.

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

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.

I've been thinking of doing a sci-fi thriller or a sci-fi noir, if that's possible.

'Intelligent Life' is kind of a companion piece to 'Safety Not Guaranteed.' Internally, it's a sci-fi romantic thriller.

Science fiction still is an idea genre.

I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus.

Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.