Science Fiction Quotes

Don't read science fiction books. lt'll look bad if you die in bed with one on the nightstand. Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of the night.

Science fiction films are not about science.  They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

disasters

Science fiction is the fiction of ideas.  Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.

I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "Science Fiction" ever since [publishing his first works], and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.

A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content.