Gardner Dozois Quotes

I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.

Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.'

I write science fiction for people who don't read a great deal of science fiction.

I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult.

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

People are put off by the perception of science fiction, and it doesn't help if you've got references to quantum this and quantum that on the first page, and people think, 'This isn't for me,' and chuck it. I'm probably a pretty bad offender, given how far in the future some of my stuff is.

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.

Many science-fiction writers, such as Gregory Benford, are working scientists. Many others, such as Joe Haldeman, have advanced degrees in science. Others, like me, have backgrounds in science and technology journalism.

Science fiction writers, when I was a kid, were a big deal.

I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.

What got my interested in science fiction was actually the American space program.

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

I am a science fiction enthusiast, really, deep down.

If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want.

I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't wait for the future when the special effects are good' to represent what was in these books by Arthur C. Clarke, Alfred Bester, Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard, Jack Vance.

I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William Gibson is one of my favorite writers.

I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.

The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten.

I'm a huge science fiction fan.

I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like that's because technology has caught up with us.

I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.

I feel like science fiction can get a bad rap sometimes because people make something just to throw an alien in it or just to make it weird, and it doesn't really have a story.

I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.