#science fiction

Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#am #archaeology #astronomy #based #basis

Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate. ↗

— Greg Bear

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I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#frightened #i #like #more #movies

Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff. ↗

— Joel Edgerton

#deal #establish #even #excitement #fiction

They've also asked me now to start on another series that we're gonna do after this Frontier Earth. But it's not science fiction, it's more in the Mystery and Crime division and that's another area I'm very interested in. ↗

— Bruce Boxleitner

#also #another #area #asked #crime

Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases. ↗

— David Brin

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I think you can get away with being a bit more political in science fiction. ↗

— Rupert Sanders

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

— Dwight Schultz

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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. ↗

— Ridley Scott

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