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I would much rather watch a horror film or science fiction than a comedy. I don't know why. I just like them. I find them relaxing.
When I was 7 years old, I plagiarized, word for word, stories from science fiction magazines so my teachers would think I was smart.
Science fiction has been an inspiration to generations of scientists and engineers, and the film series 'Star Wars' is no exception.
I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.
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 have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.
I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
As a science fiction writer, it's hard to think of a more stirring theme than the origin and ultimate destiny of life in the universe.
A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.
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.
In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon 5' universe, they're in the bottom third.
I'm not well-versed in the science fiction world. I'm hoping that I'll get more opportunities in it because you get to create a new world.
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.
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.
In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.
I think the type of actor I am, I tend to play strong leading female characters. The shows I've been on happen to be science fiction genre.
I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.
General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.
I am playing in a playground that's already been played in. I am always aware that a lot of the furniture in science fiction is second hand.
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.
While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me.
When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write 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.
I like the Sci Fi channel and 'Science Fiction Theatre.' I've been doing a lot of television-watching and thinking about good songs to write.
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like that's because technology has caught up with us.
Science fiction is exciting because it promises to show the world and the universe from perspectives radically unlike what we've seen before.
And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.
Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.
There's a thing with genre movies and science fiction movies that number two is the charmed; two seems to be the best. I loved 'Terminator 2.'
I tried to find something real in essentially something thats science fiction or something-for me, anyways-not having an experience like this.
Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.
The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.
Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story.
Around 1930, a small new phenomenon arose in Depression-ridden America, spawned out of the letter columns in science fiction magazines: fandom.
The earliest depiction of libertarian eugenics may have appeared in a science fiction novel, Robert Heinlein's 1942 tale 'Beyond This Horizon.'
I am not an expert on Chinese science fiction. I probably know more than anyone else in the West, but that doesn't actually mean I am an expert.
We can celebrate how far we've come from our sexist past when women and men are equally represented in the pages of science fiction anthologies.
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.
With 'White Light,' I had just finished watching 'Under the Skin' and was really obsessed with the idea of science fiction presented as normality.
It's often better to read first-rate science fiction than second-rate science - it's far more stimulating, and perhaps no more likely to be wrong.
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.
At one of the first science fiction conventions I ever went to, I saw a guy wearing a sandwich board promoting his book. Count me out of that one.
I read so much science fiction when I was young. I believe science fiction is the genre for exploration and to learn about possibilities via book.
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.
My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became a science fiction writer.
Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.
A lot of the things you see in science fiction revolve around black holes because black holes are strong enough to rip the fabric of space and time.
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.
Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract.