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“It does sound like a science fiction story and I may sound like one of these guys who walks up and down with a sandwich board saying the end of the world is nigh, but the end is nigh.”

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Author:Lembit Opik

“What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I'm told.”

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Book:Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut

Source: Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut

“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.”

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Author:Isaac Asimov

“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.”

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Author:Jamais Cascio

“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. To fall into a black hole, that is more amazing than anything I've ever read in a science-fiction story.”

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Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem.”

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Book:Conversations with Ray Bradbury

Source: Conversations with Ray Bradbury

“[A] science fiction story is one which presupposes a technology, or an effect of technology, or a disturbance in the natural order, such as humanity, up to the time of writing, has not in actual fact, experienced.”

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Author:Edmund Crispin

“The brightest minds in our field have been trying to find a definition of science fiction for these past seventy years. The short answer is, science fiction stories are given as possible, not necessarily here and now, but somewhere, sometime.”

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Book:Scatterbrain

Source: Scatterbrain

“If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a spaceship, you don't have to have someone thrown out an airlock.”

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Author:Charlie Jane Anders

“I love really exploring... you know, a cop drama for example is a great way to explore class in this country and explore, you know, really, identity in the country and who we are in a way that is extremely exciting, but it's also real, you know, it's also real people and real drama. The same with the military. I mean, a good science fiction story is also great.”

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Author:Ethan Hawke

“There's nothing I love more than a great truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story.”

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Author:Jeff Feuerzeig

“Fantasy and science fiction stories are very applicable to talking to your children about the world. They tend to talk about the big questions regarding life and the universe.”

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Author:Stephen H. Segal