Science Fiction Quotes

What will we be doing, when everything that can be done, can be done better by robots?

We all know interspecies romance is weird.

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.

And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before-and thus was the Empire forged.

When the mind is free, magic happens.

So is this being in love? I stay with the moment, waiting to find out, the space between us fluctuating with uncertainty. The only thing I am sure of is that each time his lips leave mine they are right back again.

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.

Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.

A writer is very much like the captain on a star ship facing the unknown. When you face the blank page and you have no idea where you're going. It can be terrifying, but it can also be the adventure of a lifetime.

As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.

The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.

That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy decoding.

Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know.

I am not a fan of the magical quick fix in any fiction, including fantasy, scifi and comic books. Unless Dr. Who is involved, and then only because we get to use the phrase 'Timey-wimey wibbliness' which, I'm sure you'll agree, there are not enough occasions to drop into ordinary adult conversation.

...Life had handed me a different set of cards and I was going to have to play my hand either way.