Gardner Dozois Quotes

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

Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.

The highest compliment I can give a science fiction book is that it's 'plausibly surreal' - it manages to feel like a relentless extrapolation from today even as it overwhelms with unexpected consequences of that extrapolation.

With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be.

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.

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.

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.

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 is a unique literature. Science fiction is the first literature that says, 'Tomorrow is going to be different than yesterday, it's going to be a lot different.'

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

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

There is no such thing as science fiction, there is only science eventuality.

The protocols of science fiction and the protocols of science are not separate-they'r e woven together.

I imagine if you're one of those genius people working on AI, the desire to find out what's possible is presumably the driving factor, but I hope there are just as many people who are thinking about what we actually want. Just because something's possible it doesn't mean it's going to be good to us.

The general public still thinks that science fiction has nothing to do with their day-to-day lives.

I like science fiction. I am quite a technologically kind of up-to-date person. I like seeing what the new developments are.

I love near-term sci-fi. I especially love right-now sci-fi: stuff that happens in current time but incorporates a scientific breakthrough that is currently being explored.

I have this theory about science fiction movies in that, when the space race sort of died, a lot of people sort of lost hope.

In 1955, when I'd write a science-fiction novel, I'd set it in the year 2000. I realised around 1977 that, 'My God, it's getting exactly like those novels we used to write in the 1950s!' Everything's just turning out to be real.

I wrote this book, '2030,' and I was careful in the book not to overdo the future because I don't think it comes that fast.

One of the things that science fiction gets to do is thought experiments about the human condition that would be impractical or unethical to conduct in real life.

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.

In a science fiction film, you're uniquely responsible to pay respect to the science represented in the movie.

I'm a fan of hard science fiction, which is science fiction that is possible.