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“For those who resist the notion that the mainstream is a genre, we recommend that they browse the shelves of their local bookstore. For if the mainstream is not a genre, then it must necessarily embrace all kinds of writing: romance, adventure, horror, thriller, crime, and, yes, science fiction.”

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Author:James Patrick Kelly

“I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.”

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Author:Rutger Hauer

“And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it's like a set in a movie.”

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Author:Berenice Marlohe

“It's horrid to be called a Shakespearean actor because that's incredibly limiting, and we love acting. We like telling stories, anything that excites us we want to be a part of. Science fiction is fun too!”

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Author:Timothy Dalton

“With science fiction there's endless possibilities.”

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Author:Anna Torv

“The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.”

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Author:Frederik Pohl

“With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be.”

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Author:Dwight Schultz

“I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.”

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Author:David Eddings

“When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into.”

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Author:Terri Windling

“Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create life there. However, as I began to research it more thoroughly, I found myself intrigued by the possibilities the world offers.”

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Author:Sarah Zettel

“Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.”

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Author:Walter Jon Williams

“Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.”

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Author:Walter Jon Williams

“I think Douglas [Douglas Adams] was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that he could make science fiction work as well as it did. And just such fun to have around, he was just such a lovely man.”

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Author:Lalla Ward

“The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do.”

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Author:Lindsay Wagner

“I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.”

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Author:A. E. van Vogt

“When I began writing science fiction in the middle 60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.”

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Author:Vernor Vinge

“The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.”

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Author:Vernor Vinge

“Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.”

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Author:Joan D. Vinge

“I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.”

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Author:Jack Vance

“But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.”

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Author:Jack Vance

“Science fiction still is an idea genre.”

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Author:Sheri S. Tepper

“In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.”

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Author:Theodore Sturgeon

“I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.”

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Author:Theodore Sturgeon

“As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.”

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Author:Norman Spinrad

“I don't read Science Fiction.”

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Author:Brent Spiner

“But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.”

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Author:Dan Simmons

“Jerry reversed the usual formula of the superhero who goes to another planet. He put the superhero in ordinary, familiar surroundings, instead of the other way around, as was done in most science fiction. That was the first time I can recall that it had ever been done.”

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Author:Joe Shuster

“So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.”

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Author:Robert Sheckley

“Science fiction is very healthy in its form.”

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Author:Robert Sheckley

“I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way.”

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Author:Robert Sheckley

“I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.”

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Author:Robert Sheckley

“In the meantime, I just have to create those realistic goals about the fact that I don't have a ton of options as an actor who's been on a science fiction show for 8 years.”

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Author:Michael Shanks

“I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.”

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Author:Ridley Scott

“Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it.”

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Author:Ridley Scott

“It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.”

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Author:Daniel Keys Moran

“He'd met other prodigies in mathematical competitions. In fact he'd been thoroughly trounced by competitors who probably spent literally all day practising maths problems and who'd never read a science-fiction book and who would burn out completely before puberty and never amount to anything in their future lives because they'd just practised known techniques instead of learning to think creatively.”

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Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“The difference between science fiction and fantasy … is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees.”

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Author:Orson Scott Card

“The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened.”

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Author:Ray Bradbury

“For if there were a list of cosmic things that unite us, reader and writer, visible as it scrolled up into the distance, like the introduction to some epic science-fiction film, then shining brightly on that list would be the fact that we exist in a financial universe that is subject to massive gravitational pulls from states. States tug at us. States bend us. And, tirelessly, states seek to determine our orbits.”

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Author:Mohsin Hamid

“In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.”

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Author:Frederik Pohl

“If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want.”

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Author:Frederik Pohl

“It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.”

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Author:Frederik Pohl

“I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.”

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Author:Frederik Pohl

“My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.”

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Author:Frederik Pohl

“My mother fed my love of demons, science fiction, and paranormal. She was a devout horror movie fan who kept me up until the wee hours to watch Outer Limits, Night Gallery, Twilight Zone, and Star Trek. We lived to watch those reruns.”

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Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“I've called science fiction 'reality ahead of schedule'”

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Author:Syd Mead

“There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.”

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Author:Elizabeth Moon

“I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books.”

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Author:Jean M. Auel

“A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic.”

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Author:Robert J. Sawyer

“'The Devil in the Dark' impressed me because it presented the idea, unusual in science fiction then and now, that something weird, and even dangerous, need not be malevolent. That is a lesson that many of today's politicians have yet to learn.”

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Author:Arthur C. Clarke

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