Hugo Gernsback Quotes

Science fiction shows are traditionally about the gimmick or the gadget and tend to be emotionally cool to the touch.

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.

[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth.

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.

We live in a science fiction universe. We have done for a long time.

I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane.

Science fiction is where I started out, really. When I was a kid, I was a complete addict of science fiction. It was one of my earliest interests as a writer, and I've just taken a long time to circle back around to it.

I think science fiction gives us a wonderful toolkit to disassemble and reexamine this kind of incomprehensible, constantly changing present that we live in, that we often live in quite uncomfortably.

Attempting to define science fiction is an undertaking almost as difficult, though not so popular, as trying to define pornography... In both pornography and SF, the problem lies in knowing exactly where to draw the line.

You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

Science fiction can be exciting and very gripping, but it doesn't tell us anything about the universe in which we live.

Science fiction, because it ventures into no man's lands, tends to meet some of the requirements posed by Jung in his explorations of archetypes, myth structures and self-understanding. It may be that the primary attraction of science fiction is that it helps us understand what it means to be human.

My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'

Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us.

I've always been a fan of science fiction.

Most of my work is science fiction, with many a spaceship but few cars.

Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.

When I was a child, science fiction was the first source I've found for information. Science fiction was a very very low cultural stream in those days. It was completly below the radar and no one bothered to censurate it.

I think what I love about science fiction and what sci-fi can be really good at is obviously you're working with outlandish concepts that have very little to do with the real world, like time travel for instance.

Science fiction, as I mentioned before, writes about what is neither impossible nor possible; the fact is that, when the question of possibility comes up in science fiction, the author can only reply that nobody knows. We haven't been there yet. We haven't discovered that yet. Science fiction hasn't happened.

The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.

I do like sci-fi. When I was a kid, I was always sort of locked into sci-fi stories. So, sci-fi has always had a special place in my heart.

Literary science fiction is a very, very narrow band of the publishing business. I love science fiction in more of a pop-culture sense. And by the way, the line between science fiction and reality has blurred a lot in my life doing deep ocean expeditions and working on actual space projects and so on. So I tend to be more fascinated by the reality of the science-fiction world in which we live.

When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field.