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“When I was a child, science fiction was the first source I've found for information. Science fiction was a very very low cultural stream in those days. It was completly below the radar and no one bothered to censurate it.”

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Author:William Gibson

“I don't think of myself as being particulary a subversive writer, but I like to think that my work could afford someone else, the extra degree of freedom that I found when I first found science fiction.”

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Author:William Gibson

“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.”

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Author:Matt Groening

“I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult.”

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Author:Matt Groening

“The nice thing about 'Futurama' for me personally was that it was a way to honor some of the traditional ideas in literary science fiction, not so much movie or television science fiction - although we have that too, obviously. Our situation, a workplace comedy, led to all sorts of stuff.”

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Author:Matt Groening

“We have 'Doctor Who' references on 'Futurama,' but we have a lot of science fiction references that I don't get; but in the staff we have experts on 'Star Trek,' 'Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who' and 'Dungeons and Dragons.'”

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Author:Matt Groening

“I read mostly science-fiction and fantasy when I was a teenager, and I was always drawn to stories where the characters had telepathic powers.”

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Author:Ruth Glick

“Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.”

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Author:Marie Lu

“Farscape is not what you call hard science fiction.”

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Author:Ben Browder

“I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility, and what happens on the other side of the black hole. To me it's the microcosmic study of the macrocosmic universe in man, and that's why I'm attracted to it.”

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Author:Wesley Snipes

“You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now.”

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Author:Kim Stanley

“I'm not opposed to doing science fiction or comedy, but there has to be respect. I refuse to be the joke, the fat woman joke, in any movie. I've turned down roles.”

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Author:Darlene Cates

“Physics is often stranger than science fiction, and I think science fiction takes its cues from physics: higher dimensions, wormholes, the warping of space and time, stuff like that.”

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Author:Michio Kaku

“We physicists don't like to admit it, but some of us are closet science fiction fans. We hate to admit it because it sounds undignified. But when we were children, that's when we got interested in science, for a lot of us.”

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Author:Michio Kaku

“They have an amazing proliferation of TV channels now: The all-cartoon channel, the 24-hour-science fiction channel. Of course, to make room for these they got rid of the Literacy Channel and the What's Left of Civilization Channel.”

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Author:Dennis Miller

“I was obsessed with movies when I was younger. During the summer, I would go by myself to a theater down the street from my house. I saw every comedy or science fiction movie that came out. My kids love going to the movies, but 3D scares them.”

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Author:Allen Covert

“We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.”

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Author:Gary Kemp

“A lot of comic conventions go way beyond comic books and include other parts of pop culture, like celebrities and science fiction and movies and books. So I go to them either as a celebrity, or as a fan, because I'm a big sci-fi geek.”

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Author:Jane Wiedlin

“Much blood has also been spilled on the carpet in attempts to distinguish between science fiction and fantasy. I have suggested an operational definition: science fiction is something that COULD happen - but usually you wouldn't want it to. Fantasy is something that COULDN'T happen - though often you only wish that it could.”

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Book:The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke: History Lesson

Source: The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke: History Lesson

“My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading that interests them, to expand the definition of reading to include humor, science fiction/fantasy, nonfiction, graphic novels, wordless books, audio books and comic books.”

“That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.”

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Author:Gary Shteyngart

“I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.”

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Author:Matthew Tobin Anderson

“I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do Harry Potter or anything like that. Even when I did science-fiction, I didnt write about foreign planets and distant futures. I certainly never did fantasies about trolls living under bridges.”

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Author:Richard Matheson

“If you really want you people to innovate, buy a science fiction book, tear off the covers, and tell them it's history.”

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Author:Nolan Bushnell

“Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.”

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Author:Clifton Fadiman

“The thing about science-fiction fans and "Star Wars" fans is they're very independent-thinking people. They all think outside the box, but they all have very strong ideas about what should happen, and they think it should be their way. Which is fine, except I'm making the movies, so I should have it my way.”

“The culture is still there, and people are still doing it. I imagine some people are doing it very well indeed. As for me, it definitely was my native literary culture. Science fiction was where I'm from, but on the way to now, I went through a lot of other territory, and I wasn't really that culturally conventional an SF writer when I started.”

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Author:William Gibson

“I had a list of things that science fiction, particularly American science fiction, to me seemed to do with tedious regularity. One was to not have strong female protagonists. One was to envision the future, whatever it was, as America.”

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Author:William Gibson

“As a journalist, I would talk to writers, directors, creative people, and discover that for an awful lot of them, the moment they became successful, that was all they were allowed to do. So you end up talking to the bestselling science-fiction author who wrote a historical-fiction novel that everybody loved, but no one would publish.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

“I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy.”

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Book:Conversations with Ray Bradbury

Source: Conversations with Ray Bradbury

“Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.”

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Author:Ray Bradbury

“Braxton Cosby's stories feel personal and well thought-out. I'm happy to welcome this entertaining writer to the YA science fiction field. I look forward to more of his work!”

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Author:Tananarive Due

“As a child I always steered clear of science fiction, but in the autumn of 1977 the bow-wave of publicity for the first Star Wars movie had already reached me, so I was eager for anything science-fictional.”

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Author:Philip Reeve

“I never would have guessed I would be making science fiction and horror films.”

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Author:Matt Reeves

“Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines were creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach.”

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Author:Ray Kurzweil

“Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.”

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Author:Ray Kurzweil

“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.”

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Author:David Gerrold

“One of the many things that surprised me about Wool is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers.”

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Author:Hugh Howey

“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

“My most memorable science fiction experience was Star Wars and seeing R2D2 and C3PO. I fell in love with those robots.”

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Author:Cynthia Breazeal

“Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it is a scandal that in 1999 so many writers have written it and continue to write it in obscurity.”

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Author:John Clute

“I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.”

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Author:Laurell K. Hamilton

“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.”

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Author:Randy Alcorn

“If I had unlimited funds, wall space and storage, I would collect a lot more things, like 'Planet of the Apes,' 'Star Wars,' science fiction stuff, autographs, and prop guns and weapons. I have to draw the line somewhere.”

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Author:Kirk Hammett

“I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?”

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Author:Rainbow Rowell

“Seldom does a storytelling talent come along as potent and fully mature as Mike Brotherton. His complex characters take you on a voyage that is both fiercely credible and astonishingly imaginative. This is Science Fiction.”

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Author:David Brin

“Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale.”

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Author:Cory Doctorow

“This is a collection of dexterous, loving, beautifully optimistic work that left me breathless and delighted.... Hannu Rajaniemi's magnificent science fiction - as is paradoxically appropriate - is pure magic.”

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Author:Amal El-Mohtar

“In science-fiction films the monster should always be bigger than the leading lady.”

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Book:The Films of Roger Corman: Brilliance on a Budget

Source: The Films of Roger Corman: Brilliance on a Budget

“I would love to do more science fiction. I always envisioned the Riddick franchise as a continuing mythology, so I always imagined that there would be many other films to follow.”

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Author:Vin Diesel

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