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My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.
Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.
The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.
I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of a nerdy family activity.
I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.
Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.
I think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters.
I've always been interested in science fiction.
I was always attracted to science fiction movies.
Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.
I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.
Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.
Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.
'Farscape' is not what you call hard science fiction.
When I die, I'm gonna leave my body to science fiction.
Science fiction is what I point at when I say science fiction.
There is no such thing as science fiction, there is only science eventuality.
Doing science fiction at a high level is tricky. It's really tricky.
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.
But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.
The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
Science fiction is about extrapolation, looking back through history, spotting a trend, and predicting where it will go.
From my point of view, 'Stranger in a Strange Land' isn't just a science fiction masterpiece; it also happens to be one of my favorite books ever.
I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.
I'm not a futurist, and my taste in science fiction was sort of in the gothic horror vein, not space movies and futuristic stuff.
All the science fiction I loved as a kid was holding up a mirror to society and warning us about the need for course correction.
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
Science fiction is exciting because it promises to show the world and the universe from perspectives radically unlike what we've seen before.
It's been an old saw in science fiction for a long time, since 'Frankenstein,' that we're going to create life that's going to turn on us.
I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.
Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
I'm sure there's an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer.
Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.
The earliest depiction of libertarian eugenics may have appeared in a science fiction novel, Robert Heinlein's 1942 tale 'Beyond This Horizon.'
To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'
The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes.
Science fiction and fantasy is a kind of literature that embodies the highest aspirations of the human race.
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.
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.
I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.
I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William Gibson is one of my favorite writers.
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 consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
My model for Kirk was Horatio Hornblower from the C.S. Forester sea stories. Shatner was open-minded about science fiction and a marvelous choice.
The '70s was a decade that was crammed with prominent women science fiction writers, and a lot of women made their debut in that decade or really came to prominence.
I never wanted to be "a writer"; I only ever aspired to be an science fiction writer. They'll tear that badge out of my cold dead hands.