Jerry Pournelle Quotes

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.

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

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.

People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.

Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own.

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

I've loved sci-fi and speculative fiction since I was a kid. It was inevitable I'd try my hand at it at some point.

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

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

Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.

If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want.

While I was in high school, I discovered and began writing science fiction.

I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.

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've always been interested in science fiction.

I write science fiction for people who don't read a great deal of science fiction.

That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.

I'm not well-versed in the science fiction world. I'm hoping that I'll get more opportunities in it because you get to create a new world.

I really strived to give equal weight to the two halves of my genre's name: science and fiction.

I read a lot of sci-fi when I was younger. Loved it from the literary point of view.

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

I read and write speculative fiction because I want to go someplace really different.

I love writing romance, along with science fiction and fantasy - and my books usually meld all three to some degree.

I have a long love of fantasy and science-fiction.