There were four major 20th-century science fiction writers: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein and Ray Bradbury. Of those four, the first three were all published principally in science-fiction magazines. They were preaching to the converted.
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Related I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. ... JAY PARINI The earliest depiction of libertarian eugenics may have appeared in a science fiction novel, Robert ... GREGORY BENFORD I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers deal... WALTER MOSLEY The 1970s were so wonderful for women writers. There were all these women, and they were seen as doi... LISA TUTTLE I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret At... CONOR OBERST I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing ... WALTER MOSLEY Some readers may realize that this story, first published in 1956, has been overtaken by events. In ... ISAAC ASIMOV I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought &... MATT GROENING As his talent expands, some of his stories become pointed social commentary; some are surprisingly e... DAMON KNIGHT There's always been a little bit of tension between the writers of science fiction literature an... JOHN SCALZI I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury. WILLIAM SHATNER Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprun... J. G. BALLARD There's so much knowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield a... ISAAC ASIMOV I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction write... TAHMOH PENIKETT Pulp magazines were pretty much the principal form of inexpensive literature in the first part of th... DOUG ELLIS The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeenth-century novels of exploration in fabulous ... PHILIP K. DICK Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. —ROBERT J. SAWYER, Calculating... TIMOTHY FERRISS There is a sort of genre of optimistic science fiction that I like, and I don't think there is e... PETER THIEL I don't think four science- fiction shows are going to survive, but a couple probably will. DAVID GOYER It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'... TERRY PRATCHETT Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the histo... RAY BRADBURY I never had a favourite book! I liked all kinds of things - science fiction, so I read Heinlen and R... REBECCA STEAD I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science f... KURT VONNEGUT Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun... JUNOT DíAZ In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry. DAMON LINDELOF Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded. ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Print science fiction writers often do consulting for government bodies. ROBERT J. SAWYER The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors. VERNOR VINGE Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet. JACK MCDEVITT Technically and logically speaking, actual Victorian science fiction writers cannot be dubbed 's... PAUL DI FILIPPO All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fert... ALAN LIGHTMAN Science-fiction films were so involved with lots of screaming, and here comes a monster. It was a ce... ANNE FRANCIS I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonf... NNEDI OKORAFOR For bedtime reading, I usually curl up with a good monograph on quantum physics or string theory, my... MICHIO KAKU Clarke 's First L... ISAAC ASIMOV Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science... PHILIP K. DICK Around 1930, a small new phenomenon arose in Depression-ridden America, spawned out of the letter co... GREGORY BENFORD Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes. WILLIAM GIBSON I can list on one hand the famous science fiction writers I never met. ROBERT SILVERBERG The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers. SHERI S. TEPPER I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business. ROBERT REED Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about sci... PHILIP K. DICK I like science fiction and I read it a lot - if I were a collector, I would bid for his works, DAVID ANDERSON Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens. RUDY RUCKER Sometimes when we label something dystopian fiction, I feel like we're trying very hard not to u... PAOLO BACIGALUPI Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevi... ISAAC ASIMOV Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevit... ISAAC ASIMOV When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought... RAY BRADBURY Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction. SAUL STEINBERG Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or... NORTON JUSTER Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and sco... YOCHAI BENKLER Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind ... RAY BRADBURY I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there ... OCTAVIA BUTLER I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there ... OCTAVIA E. BUTLER Science fiction writers didn't predict the fade-out of NASA's manned space operations, and t... GREGORY BENFORD The Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. J.B.S. HALDANE Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is ficti... JEAN M. AUEL The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by ... WILLIAM SHATNER You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap abo... IAIN BANKS Science fiction is a unique literature. Science fiction is the first literature that says, 'Tomo... DAVID GERROLD I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our ... KAGE BAKER I read a lot of science fiction and biography - these are my two favorite genres. My favorite scienc... BRAD FELD Star Trek wouldn't die. There were a whole lot of young people who were touched by the thought p... GARY LOCKWOOD What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if it... GARDNER DOZOIS Bradbury would have said his plots are myths and metaphors that tell stories about the human conditi... SAM WELLER I think there are perhaps four playwrights of the 20th century that we could not have done without: ... EDWARD ALBEE I read a lot of science fiction, but I also mixed it up with a lot of other genres: crime, literary ... ADAM CHRISTOPHER NI love watching science fiction because I feel like when it's done well, it's not just mons... ALAN ARKIN Labels like 'Chinese Science Fiction' or 'Western Science Fiction' summarize a vast ... KEN LIU In the first century A.D., members of the growing Church in Corinth were enthusiastic about the gosp... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN When I first started editing a 'Year's Best' volume in the '70s, the job was pretty ... GARDNER DOZOIS I love science fiction. PAM GRIER You look at Richard Pryor and Robert Klein and George Carlin and Richard Lewis - those guys were so ... ARI GRAYNOR The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' ... ISAAC ASIMOV Everything's science fiction until someone makes it science fact MARIE LU Jordan Wilson pitched the first four-plus innings. He struck out four, but he walked seven and six o... SCOTT GREEN For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone. WALTER JON WILLIAMS Gulf Coast played tremendous. They got some great individual performances from Ray Bailey and Robert... GREG HEIAR I wasn't a big science fiction aficionado, there were a few films like 2001 or Blade Runner that... JOE FLANIGAN I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall ... LOIS LOWRY Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest sub... SUSAN SONTAG I'm not a fan of science fiction, personally, LAKE BELL Within three or four weeks they were back. BRIAN GORMAN Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The ultimate aim of reality is to become science fiction! ELI OF KITTIM I don't read Science Fiction. BRENT SPINER Science fiction has no ceiling. WILLIAM DONELSON There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. An... DAVID BRIN We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library ... GARY KEMP Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many bo... JILL LEPORE Physics is often stranger than science fiction, and I think science fiction takes its cues from phys... MICHIO KAKU Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to c... STEVEN SPIELBERG If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the... J. M. COETZEE Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophe... ISAAC ASIMOV Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophe... ISAAC ASIMOV Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophe... ISAAC ASIMOV I knew they were a good team. We got the No. 1 seed our district, but I think all four of us were 14... DAVE KERSCHBAUMER Erysipelas was one of four major infections that plagued hospitals in the nineteenth century. The ot... LINDSEY FITZHARRIS There is something for everyone at our book sales. We usually have everything from science and scien... ESTHER BUCK The '70s was a decade that was crammed with prominent women science fiction writers, and a lot o... ANN LECKIE
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