Science Fiction
» “Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.”
– Isaac Asimov
» ”Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today — but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.”
– Isaac Asimov
» ”Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.”
– J. G. Ballard
» ”Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can’t talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.”
– Philip K. Dick
» ”The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.”
– Joan Didion
» ”In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn’t developed space travel were mere prehistory — horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene — and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.”
– Barbara Ehrenreich
» ”If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.”
– Ursula K. Le Guin
» ”What the hell is nostalgia doing in a science-fiction film? With the whole universe and all the future to play in, Lucas took his marvelous toys and crawled under the fringed cloth on the parlor table, back into a nice safe hide hole, along with Flash Gordon and the Cowardly Lion and Luke Skywalker and the Flying Aces and the Hitler Jugend. If there’s a message there, I don’t think I want to hear it.”
– Ursula K. Le Guin
» ”Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.”
– Eric Hoffer
» ”Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.”
– Doris Lessing
» ”Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.”
– Susan Sontag
» ”I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled ”Science Fiction” and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.”
– Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
