Futuristic Themes Quotes

Science fiction should not be dismissed as escapism. It is a profound vehicle for talking about social and political issues.

Science fiction writers aren't in the prediction business; they're in the speculation business, using 'hasn't happened' or 'hasn't happened yet' to create entertaining scenarios that may or may not anticipate future realities.

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.

Our singer, Matt, was reading Stephen Hawking and other physics-related books, and I was reading entrepreneurial books, and we all started discussing the new technologies that were taking over the world, from 3-D printing to space travel. These conversations starting leading us to think of how we could portray these things in a musical way.

I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.

Any attempt to list the ten best science fiction novels is doomed to failure.

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.

I think there's always been, to some degree, a misunderstanding about what science fiction is all about, in that it has been judged by the general public as being literature of prediction, and it isn't.

Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.

Now it’s either about technology that doesn’t work or about technology that’s used in bad ways. The anthology of the top twenty-five sci-fi stories in 1970 was, like, ‘Me and my friend the robot went for a walk on the moon,’ and in 2008 it was, like, ‘The galaxy is run by a fundamentalist Islamic confederacy, and there are people who are hunting planets and killing them for fun.’

Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms.

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.

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

I love incredibly imaginative, speculative sci-fi.

I love that vein which uses sci-fi to address society's problems. It is the same when you have useful nightmares - things morph, and you get to confront issues in your dreams.

It's been suggested that most women fail to write significantly because the female mind is viscerotonic, and occupied almost exclusively with the moment-to-moment reality of emotions. If this is true, literature's loss is science fiction's gain, for Out of Bounds, Judith Merril's collection of short stories, is a warm and colorful rendering of the minutiae of the future.

[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings.

I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady.

I've always been a fan of science fiction.

I love The Matrix, especially the first one.

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

Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

As I kid I watched 'Star Trek' and 'Battlestar Galactica.'

I think that's what I really dig about science fiction these days - we've caught up to it in a way. It's no longer about people with huge brains. Now it's really much more, as Jim Cameron says, the nature of being human. What it is to be human in society. How to retain one's humanity in society.

I liked 'Star Wars' as a kid. I liked science fiction.