Quotes on Science Fiction

Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.

When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written.

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.

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.

Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

One of the liberating effects of science fiction when I was a teenager was precisely its ability to tune me into all sorts of strange data and make me realize that I wasn’t as totally isolated in perceiving the world as being monstrous and crazy

Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.

He who controls the spice controls the universe.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.