Poul Anderson Quotes

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

Science fiction still is an idea genre.

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

Science fiction is a big, big love of mine. I would love to get into that at some point.

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 love science fiction.

I like sci-fi.

Science fiction is not formulaic.

I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.

Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.

I grew up reading SF in the '70s and '80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds.

And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.

If there's a story I absolutely cannot tell without faster-than-light travel, then I am quite prepared to accept it - even though I don't personally believe it is possible.

I read so much science fiction when I was young. I believe science fiction is the genre for exploration and to learn about possibilities via book.

I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science fiction as a kid and rather liked it. But I didn't have the mentality.

When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions.

Ray Bradbury was the first author that I was really exposed to back in grade school. I'm a big Philip K. Dick fan, but the emotion and humanity that Bradbury brings to his stories and the way he uses sci-fi to get at the human heart is something that's unique and for me incredibly influential.

I like to think readers appreciate a well-drawn near-future as well as a well-drawn far-future.

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present.

I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published.

I love science fiction.

Science fiction is huge and varied, and there's almost any sort of book or story you might imagine.

Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.