Sometimes people say that we're living in the future, and time's up for science fiction, but I think that never will be, because science fiction really isn't about the future. It's about change and present-day concerns
Stephen BaxterTags: future interview science-fiction genre
I became a so-called science fiction writer when someone decreed that I was a science fiction writer. I did not want to be classified as one, so I wondered in what way I'd offended that I would not get credit for being a serious writer. I decided that it was because I wrote about technology, and most fine American writers know nothing about technology. I got classified as a science fiction writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady, New York. My first book, Player Piano, was about Schenectady. There are huge factories in Schenectady and nothing else. I and my associates were engineers, physicists, chemists, and mathematicians. And when I wrote about the General Electric Company and Schenectady, it seemed a fantasy of the future to critics who had never seen the place.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: science-fiction schenectady
Lately I have come to believe that the principle difference between Heaven and Hell is the company you keep there....
Lois McMaster BujoldTags: science-fiction spiritual-wisdom
Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, "the love of nature" seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than love. There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus. It was strange to see Takver take a leaf into her hand, or even a rock. She became an extension of it, it of her.
Ursula K. Le GuinTags: nature death fantasy science-fiction the-dispossessed
The revolution lasted six minutes and covered one hundred an twelve meters.
Cordwainer SmithTags: science-fiction revolution
... crowding together to see something which would ease the boredom of perfection and time.
Cordwainer SmithTags: science-fiction
... but remember that I shall love your sorrow...
Cordwainer SmithTags: sorrow science-fiction
We're living in science fiction, but we don't realize it.
Terry PratchettTags: science-fiction living realize
It was the end of the October term of my sophomore year, and everything was petty normal, except for Social Studies, which was no big surprise. Mr. Dimas, who taught the class, had a reputation for unconventional teaching methods. For midterms he had blindfolded us, then had us each stick a pin in a map of the world and we got to write essays on wherever the pin stuck. I got Decatur, Illinois. Some of the guys complained because they drew places like Ulan Bator or Zimbabwe. They were lucky. YOU try writing ten thousand words on Decatur, Illinois.
Neil GaimanTags: science-fiction decatur
We believed we were safe. That was the big fantasy.
John MarsdenTags: safety fantasy science-fiction
« first previous
Page 33 of 68.
next last »
Data privacy
Imprint
Contact
Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um Ihnen die bestmögliche Funktionalität bieten zu können.