Science Fiction Authors Quotes

I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't wait for the future when the special effects are good' to represent what was in these books by Arthur C. Clarke, Alfred Bester, Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard, Jack Vance.

British and Canadian sci-fi strikes me as more forward-looking than its American counterpart, as evidenced by the success of Iain M. Banks, Charlie Stross, Robert Charles Wilson, and Cory Doctorow.

I do enjoy reading some science fiction.

I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult.

I love the fact that it's not only about Star Trek, but about science fiction in general, and science.

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more good science fiction than anyone else alive.

I write science fiction for people who don't read a great deal of science fiction.

A lot of the science fiction that I grew up reading was written when we still thought that Venus might be an oceanic planet.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.

Science fiction is fantasy about issues of science. Science fiction is a subset of fantasy. Fantasy predated it by several millennia. The '30s to the '50s were the golden age of science fiction - this was because, to a large degree, it was at this point that technology and science had exposed its potential without revealing the limitations.

I used to read a good deal of science fiction when I was a boy.

I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.

If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want.

I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, 'The Handmaid's Tale.' And you know, so much of science fiction has to do with predicting what's to come, so I think that's really interesting.

Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.'

I can list on one hand the famous science fiction writers I never met.

I've always been interested in science fiction.

While I was in high school, I discovered and began writing science fiction.

There were four major 20th-century science fiction writers: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein and Ray Bradbury. Of those four, the first three were all published principally in science-fiction magazines. They were preaching to the converted.

Without science fiction, without the influence these books have had on me over the years, I'm not sure I would care much about reading or writing today.

Just as computer science is missing from our school system, so is science fiction.

I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.

I always like Iain Banks science fiction stuff and William Gibson's cyberpunk stuff from the 1980s.