#fiction

I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#cutting-edge #day #editing #every #every day

If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go see a movie that it is fiction. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

#audiences #dialogue #elizabeth #elizabeth i #fiction

Quote from Frontiers: "Regardless of what happened, it was definitely going to be an exciting time for everyone, the day humanity first reached out to touch the stars. ↗

— Jeff W. Horton

#science-fiction #science

The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a new gimmick, or a bunch of strong men, or an invasion of aliens, or the conquest of other planets, or the annihilation of half the world--in short, pretty nearly anything but the facing up to the integral and irredeemable nature of mankind--can bring about utopian situations. It is the old error of the externalization of evil. ↗

— Brian Aldiss

#mankind #optimism #science-fiction #utopia #men

How typical of a machine to think it knows better. ↗

— Vasileios Kalampakas

#science-fiction #science

You can only chase a butterfly for so long. ↗

— Jane Yolen

#butterfly #chase #culloden #historical-fiction #jane-yolen

You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#confidence #craving #doing #limitations #loser

Armon stared into the wild darkness of his opponent and saw a reflection of his own fall. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#darkness #defeat #fight #fighting #opponent

And now, we have no option. We can't say 'maybe' 'it's possible' 'it looks very probable...' No way! We have to say this is what the Bible teaches! This is fact! May 21, 2011 is the day of the Rapture, it is the day that Judgment Day begins... ↗

— Harold Camping

#end-of-the-world #rapture #sci-fi #science-fiction #spiritual

I would wish you gods speed but I don’t want you to waste time looking for him." Rajesh From The Navigator by Steve Merrick ↗

— Steve Merrick

#munich-syndrome #sci-fi #science-fiction #steve-merrick #stevesevilempire