“There are very real differences between science fiction and realistic fiction, between horror and fantasy, between romance and mystery. Differences in writing them, in reading them, in criticizing them. Vive les différences! They're what gives each genre its singular flavor and savor, its particular interest for the reader - and the writer.” GivingWritingRealRomanceReadingInterestDifferencesFictionFantasyMysteryParticularReaderHorrorScience FictionGenreCriticizeRealisticFlavorRealistic Fiction Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“Blade Runner is a rare science fiction movie so full of material that pages can be written about it without scratching the surface. A review like this can provide little more than an overview. A detailed exploration of the movie, its style, and its mysteries requires dedication that only someone immersed in Blade Runner lore can provide.” LittlesFictionWrittenMysteryStyleMaterialsPagesScience FictionSurfaceExplorationReviewsDedicationRunnersBladesBlade RunnerScience Fiction MovieOverviewScratching The Surface Author:James Berardinelli
“Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem by John Updike and to have sent teams of scientists deep underground for 50 years to build huge science-fiction-like contraptions to unravel their mysteries.” YearsEnoughFictionKnownMysteryTeamHugeScientistScience FictionPropertyInspiredParticlesEtherealNeutrinos Author:Lawrence M. Krauss
“It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction.” ChristianRomanceYoungFictionFantasyMysteryAdventureOffersAdultsAppreciateScience FictionHistoricalYoung AdultContemporaryVarietySuspense Author:Randy Alcorn
“Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it.” PeopleWritingStoriesLyingFictionFantasyHappenedMysteryEventsScience FictionWesternCoreUntrue Author:George R. R. Martin
“'Fringe' is one of my favorite television shows, from its inception. I absolutely love all of the science fiction of it, the mystery of it, and the science in it.” ShowsFictionMysteryTelevisionScience FictionMy FavoriteFringeTelevision ShowsInception Author:Jill Scott
“I ended up working on "Chicago Hope" and other things, but always with the idea that, eventually, I would want to take what I'd learned in character drama and try to apply that to the genre that I love, which is science fiction and "The Twilight Zone" type mysteries.” WantTryingIdeasCharacterFictionMysteryTypeDramaScience FictionGenreZoneChicagoTwilightTwilight Zone Author:Remi Aubuchon
“For me, fantasy and speculative science fiction are the genres that feel closest to how I feel about being alive. Like, when I feel the most invigorated by just even a walk down the block in twilight, when the street lamps are just coming on and there's mist and some shadowy thing in silhouette in a window, I naturally invest all of those things with deep mythology and mystery and meaning. I think I need to believe in that version of reality because I get very scared when I don't.” ThinkingNeedsFeelsBelieveRealityWalksFictionFantasyAliveMysteryStreetsWindowScience FictionScaredMythologyVersionsBlockGenreTwilightClosestLampsMistSilhouettes Author:Brit Marling
“Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.” FictionFantasyMysteryScience FictionCrap Author:George R. R. Martin
“I have 20 or 30 books completely plotted out in my mind - mysteries, thrillers, horror, romance, science fiction. You name it.” MindBookRomanceNamesFictionMysteryHorrorScience FictionThrillers Author:Christopher Paolini
“The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.” HumansWellsCharacterFilmFictionMysteryScience FictionRobots Author:John Podhoretz
“To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'” FictionMysteryScience FictionAweShockShock And Awe Author:J. Michael Straczynski