#science fiction

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts. ↗

— Brian Aldiss

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Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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It's kind of a misnomer about science fiction that science fiction is about anything other than people. It's about people doing stuff, sometimes doing extraordinary stuff. ↗

— Greg Bear

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The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. ↗

— Octavia Butler

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Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on. ↗

— David Brin

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And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy. ↗

— Octavia Butler

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I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time. ↗

— Octavia Butler

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It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction. ↗

— Cory Doctorow

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I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood Still, which I consider to be the classic science fiction film. ↗

— Gil Gerard

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