“I love conventional apocalypse movies. In movies, I like to be with the President, or the scientist trying to solve the problem, but that's not the kind of fiction that I like to read.” TryingKindProblemPresidentFictionScientistSolveConventionalApocalypse Author:Karen Thompson Walker
“Theres two tiers of science fiction: the McDonalds sci-fi like Star Trek, where they have an adventure and solve it before the last commercial, and there are books that once youve read, you never look at the world the same way again.” WorldWayLooksTwoBookLastsStarsFictionAdventureScience FictionSolveSci FiMcdonalds Author:David Gerrold
“The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems to be solved. It's problem solving. Primitive scientific knowledge, primitive dreams, primitive blueprinting: to solve problems.” YearsIdeasProblemDreamFictionWallYears AgoScience FictionSolvePrimitiveProblem SolvingCavesHistory Of ScienceScientific Knowledge Book:Conversations with Ray Bradbury Source: Conversations with Ray Bradbury
“To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root - first grade. If a boy has all the toys in his head that reading can give him, and you hook him into science fiction, then you've got the future secured.” IfsGivingFirstsProblemReadingFictionBoysDrugRootsScience FictionSolveGradesToysHookSecured Author:Ray Bradbury
“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.” WorldSometimesStoriesProblemSocialFictionMoralScience FictionSolveTheologicalFiction Stories Book:Conversations with Ray Bradbury Source: Conversations with Ray Bradbury
“I really need to know where I'm going with fiction to write it in a way that at least I'm happy with. And I really think that a lot of fiction books end badly because terrific writers said, "I'll just figure it out" and plunge in, but have created so many problems that they are kind of impossible to solve. I mean, I'm talking really good writers do this and you can tell when they got to the end they either had to do something preposterous or they just don't really resolve things. So for fiction I spend a lot more time outlining and for humor I really don't do much of it.” ThinkingKnowsWayNeedsWritingKindMeanSaidBookEndsProblemFictionTalkingImpossibleFiguresSolveResolveMore TimeTerrificPlungeGood WritersOutlining Author:Dave Barry