David Brin Quotes

I think science fiction gives us a wonderful toolkit to disassemble and reexamine this kind of incomprehensible, constantly changing present that we live in, that we often live in quite uncomfortably.

Science fiction can be exciting and very gripping, but it doesn't tell us anything about the universe in which we live.

Science fiction has always had a dark side. There has been a touch of the irrational and absurd in the genre from the very beginning.

I quite enjoy science fiction.

Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.

[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.

Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.

You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history

Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.

[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth.

Science fiction shows are traditionally about the gimmick or the gadget and tend to be emotionally cool to the touch.

Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.

Science fiction annoyed me because it was like, "Why is the world as it is not enough for you?"

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.

Everybody always talks about the science fiction genre, in particular, which always makes me think about people in spaceships. I can appreciate that, but that's not really where I think my dramatist aspect lies.

Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us.

I think what I love about science fiction and what sci-fi can be really good at is obviously you're working with outlandish concepts that have very little to do with the real world, like time travel for instance.

The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different.

Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused state of knowledge (science), and is characteristically cast in the Gothic or post Gothic mode.

Science fiction, as I mentioned before, writes about what is neither impossible nor possible; the fact is that, when the question of possibility comes up in science fiction, the author can only reply that nobody knows. We haven't been there yet. We haven't discovered that yet. Science fiction hasn't happened.

Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.

I don't like sci-fi/fantasy.

Anything that has to do with noir and space, I'm gonna love. When you've got a noir-ish, pulpy detective in a science fiction show, I'm all in, in that regard.

What science-fiction premises do is it gives you a "what-if" prism to look at the contemporary world with a wack on the side of the head.