Ridley Scott Quotes

I love J. G. Ballard. I love authors who take the world as we know it and just tweak one thing and say, 'What if the world were like this?'

While my favorite book of short stories is Fredrick Brown's 'Nightmares and Geezenstacks,' my favorite single story is 'Sound of Thunder,' by Ray Bradbury.

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

I'm sure there's an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer.

I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future.

There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine yourself to even doing historical revisionist fiction, whatever you want to call it - mash-ups, gimmick lit, absurdist fiction - I don't know if I want to do that anymore.

For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.

I think human beings will always still really enjoy using our imaginations, and 'Fringe' allows you to do that. It's slightly scary and believable. There just might be an alternate universe. There just might be people on the other side that are like us, living a different life.

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

Science fiction still is an idea genre.

'The Man in the High Castle' is still the best what-if-the-Axis-had-won novel.

'Fringe' is a sci-fi show. But once you go beyond the genre, you're immersed in a profound reality.

As for genre, my adult books are usually filed under science fiction / fantasy, although some stores put them into romance, and few have stuck them into horror. I consider all my books a mix of steampunk and urban fantasy.

The great thing about science fiction is that it transcends national boundaries.

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

I've always liked authors such as Philip K. Dick and Ray Bradbury.

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.

There are similarities between historical novels and science fiction. Being thrown into the Napoleonic Wars is just as much of a different world as space.

I've always had a real interest in the way that science fiction can portray a world that could be different to our world, which I find a really exciting thought.

British and Canadian sci-fi strikes me as more forward-looking than its American counterpart, as evidenced by the success of Iain M. Banks, Charlie Stross, Robert Charles Wilson, and Cory Doctorow.

I'm a huge fan of Philip K. Dick.

My love of science fiction comes from the idea of being able to explore ideas and concepts to an either logical or illogical extreme.

I love incredibly imaginative, speculative sci-fi.