“Life is replete with comedy, drama, horror, suspense, tragedy, romance, mystery, fantasy and a good dose of fiction. While at times the plot may seem to be lacking, the special effects alone are well worth the price of admission.” LifeWellsMaySeemsRomanceLife IsFictionFantasyComedyMysterySpecialEffectsDramaHorrorTragedySuspensePlotLackingDoseAdmissionSpecial Effects Author:Derek R. Audette
“I'm frustrated with Hollywood and television and the movies because they see science fiction as an excuse for eye candy, for lots of great special effects.” EyeFictionSpecialEffectsTelevisionHollywoodScience FictionExcuseFrustratedCandySpecial EffectsEye Candy Author:David Gerrold
“As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically induced social change. I roam up and down it in a kind of special way because I roam down it into history, which is invariably itself a speculative affair.” WayKindSocialDealsFictionTechnologySpecialAffairSocial ChangeUp And Down Author:William Gibson
“We shall not read it for its sociological insights, which are non-existent, nor as science fiction, because it has a general air of implausibility; but there is one high poetic fancy in the New Atlantis that stays in the mind after all its fancies and inventions have been forgotten. In the New Atlantis, an island kingdom lying in very distant seas, the only commodity of external trade is light: Bacon's own special light, the light of understanding.” MindHas BeensLightLyingUnderstandingFictionAirSeaSpecialTradeScience FictionForgottenInsightInventionKingdomsIslandsFancyPoeticCommodityAtlantisSociological Author:Peter Medawar
“I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't wait for the future when the special effects are good' to represent what was in these books by Arthur C. Clarke, Alfred Bester, Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard, Jack Vance.” I CanBookFactsKidsReadingWaitingFictionSpecialEffectsScience FictionArthurPhilipSpecial Effects Author:Matt Groening
“We are tired of the pretense that we have special privileges and the reality that we have none; of the fiction that we are queens, and the fact that we are subjects.” FactsRealityFictionFeminismSpecialSubjectsTiredPrivilegeQueensPretense Author:Lillie Devereux Blake
“I think we tried to make a film [Moon] that was about human beings as opposed to going from one special effects set piece to the next one, which is what a lot of science fiction films these days do.” ThinkingHumansFilmNextHuman BeingsFictionPiecesSpecialEffectsMoonScience FictionThese DaysThe Next OneSpecial Effects Author:Duncan Jones
“My biggest difference with our film and those kinds of science fiction films is that they are going from one special effect set piece to the next, what we were doing was more of a character study. And I think that is the freedom that you get by doing an Indie film. You can only really do that with a lower budget. So I understand where the conflict is between those two priorities.” ThinkingKindTwoCharacterFilmNextDifferencesFictionStudyPiecesSpecialEffectsConflictScience FictionPrioritiesBudgetsSpecial EffectsIndie Films Author:Duncan Jones
“Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century.” Has BeensFictionSpecialCenturySatireVocabularyRidicule18th CenturyStaples Author:Paul Fry
“Mann and Joyce are very different, and yet their fiction often appeals to the same people: Harry Levin taught a famous course on Joyce, Proust, and Mann, and Joseph Campbell singled out Joyce and Mann as special favorites. To see them as offering "possibilities for living", as I do, isn't to identify any distinctive commonality. After all, many great authors would fall under that rubric.” PeopleDifferentFallCoursesFictionSpecialPossibilityTaughtAppealsOfferingDistinctiveJoyceCommonalityProustGreat AuthorRubrics Author:Philip Kitcher
“These novels [Zombie, My Sister, My Love] are so special to me. [I don't expect that they will have nearly the same significance to anyone else.] They represent a kind of fiction I would love to pursue more or less constantly, but dare not.” KindFictionNovelSpecialDarePursueSignificanceMy SisterZombieSpecial To Me Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“Fiction has this special power. It has a power to clarify, to galvanize, to prophesy, and warn.” FictionSpecial Author:Ben H. Winters
“I think that fiction has this special responsibility or this special ability to help people to empathize, to demand of people that they understand other individuals and other people's experiences.” PeopleThinkingHelpingIndividualAbilityFictionResponsibilitySpecialDemand Author:Ben H. Winters