Doris Lessing Quotes

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 like sci-fi.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable.

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.

Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.

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

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.

I do like sci-fi, absolutely. I've watched everything from 'Star Trek' to 'Star Wars' to 'Terminator' - the list goes on and on.

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

I was a big fan of sci-fi.

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

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

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

Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.

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

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.

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.

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

With science fiction there's endless possibilities.

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

I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood Still, which I consider to be the classic science fiction film.

Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?

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.

What kind of hard SF do I write? Everything from near-future, Earth-centric techno-thrillers to far-future, far-flung interstellar epics.