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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

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We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

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The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers. ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

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Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

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

— Vernor Vinge

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I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things. ↗

— Walter Mosley

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I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

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Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

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