Nalo Hopkinson Quotes

Science fiction is an extension of science.

That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change. Science fiction is the very literature of change. In fact, it is the only such literature we have.

Science fiction is the very literature of change.

Science fiction is about worlds you don't know and worlds you can create, like in 'Avatar'.

Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about.

Many people have tried to define science fiction. I like to call it the literature of exploration and change. While other genres obsess upon so-called eternal verities, SF deals with the possibility that our children may have different problems. They may, indeed, be different than we have been.

Science Fiction is the jazz of literature.

There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.'

Scientists are embarrassed by science fiction; they want to distance themselves as much as possible. ... I think there's nothing to be ashamed of [and that] we should take science fiction seriously.

I like sci-fi.

Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.

I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.

Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious threat. Biodiversity is good, and I think it is good in technology as well.

When I see how fast technology is advancing, my mind thinks of evolution and how organisms also have to evolve or adapt in order to, in their case, survive.

It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

I'm a sci-fi guy. But I like fantasy too.

I read so much science fiction when I was young. I believe science fiction is the genre for exploration and to learn about possibilities via book.

Human beings are attracted to novelty: to probe the 'adjacent possible.' We didn't stay in the caves. We didn't stay on the planet, and soon we won't stay within the limitations of our biology. We move forward. We transcend our limits. We go to the moon, and we create the Internet.

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.

Science fiction is a unique literature. Science fiction is the first literature that says, 'Tomorrow is going to be different than yesterday, it's going to be a lot different.'

Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it is a scandal that in 1999 so many writers have written it and continue to write it in obscurity.

General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.

I love the 'what if' nature of sci-fi.

Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.