#science fiction

The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction. ↗

— William Shatner

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If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction. ↗

— Matthew Modine

#accomplish #art #creates #direction #etc

Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story. ↗

— Hugo Gernsback

#exposition #fiction #first #must #place

I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

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I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic. ↗

— Dan Aykroyd

#been #big #big fan #fan #fiction

I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects. ↗

— Jack L. Chalker

#been #college #colleges #fiction #health

I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that actually supported the theory behind the book which was incredible. That's when I decided to acquire the rights of the book and everything went from there. ↗

— Roland Emmerich

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My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#always #connected #everyday #feeling #fiction

We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#dead #fantasy #fiction #hard #i

Science fiction is an extension of science. ↗

— Len Wiseman

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