Eugene Kennedy Quotes

The paucity of near-future U.S. scifi is about the country becoming pessimistic, not being able to see the future clearly. There's a trend in U.S. scifi towards militarism and far-future stuff.

I'm a science-fiction fan. All science fiction ends up being reality.

Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.

Science fiction is the very literature of change.

To be a science fiction writer you must be interested in the future and you must feel that the future will be different and hopefully better than the present. Although I know that most - that many science fiction writings have been anti-utopias. And the reason for that is that it's much easier and more exciting to write about a really nasty future than a - placid, peaceful one.

You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now.

You see, I'm also a futurist. I dream about the world 50, 100, maybe even 1,000 years in the future. But I also realize I'm probably not going to see it. However, I wouldn't mind having at least a copy of myself see the future, maybe 50, 100, 1,000 years into the future. It would be a fantastic ride.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable.

When you're changing centuries, people get curious about the future.

Science fiction sometimes is fun because it reaches so far in the future.

Science fiction's power, if it has any, is that it gives us reasonable extrapolations, not wild and woolly stuff.

Most science fiction is based on our knowledge now and uses that to project the future.

One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

'Star Trek' was inspiring to me.

Science fiction is about things that plausibly might happen. Grounding my work in the real world helps make that clear.

I don't know why, but American sci-fi writers seem to focus on the near-future, which has given us Brits a clear run at the most fascinating.

Science fiction is about extrapolation, looking back through history, spotting a trend, and predicting where it will go.

Science fiction always has had strains of pessimism and optimism weaving through its historical development, sometimes one dominating and then the other, usually depending on the state of the world.

I've always loved sci-fi and fantasy.

To me, sci-fi has the most amazing style.

Back in the Seventies, we had a romantic, poetic vision of the future, like it was in the movie '2001: A Space Odyssey.' It felt as if everything was still ahead of us.

The only way to write about right now is to write about the future.

to hope was to expect

I like the present and tomorrow

Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting.