Robert J. Sawyer Quotes

I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.

What got my interested in science fiction was actually the American space program.

I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.

Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.'

I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like that's because technology has caught up with us.

I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.

I've always been interested in science fiction.

My mom introduced me to science-fiction.

A lot of people forget that the origin of science fiction in the U.S. was in the post-First World War period when there was a real interest to get people into technical careers.

As a kid, I became a total SF geek. It started in the 5th grade with Asimov's 'Lucky Starr' series of what would now be called 'young adult' novels of adventures in the solar system.

Science fiction writers, when I was a kid, were a big deal.

The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten.

I'm a huge science fiction fan.

The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.

I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast.

The entire Internet, as well as the types of devices represented by the desktop computer, the laptop computer, the iPhone, the iPod, and the iPad, are a continuing inescapable embarrassment to science fiction, and an object lesson in the fallibility of genre writers and their vaunted predictive abilities.

The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes.

Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

As a literature of change driven by technology, science fiction presents religion to a part of the reading public that probably seldom goes to church.

I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun of it. That's why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds.

About the time you might start to think that science fiction - the real stuff, not the species of fantasy that goes under the name - is really dead, along comes a story by Cory Doctorow.

I'm a science fiction geek from birth - that's just who I am.