Alien Worlds Quotes

I would love to set foot on another planet - lunar or Mars or somewhere.

Well," he sighed to no one in particular, and looked up into yet another alien sky. "Here we are again.

Moving cities are a fairly hoary old sci-fi trope - I seem to recall they were always cropping up on 'Doctor Who' when I was young, though I may be misremembering.

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

Every time I lock my people in a spacecraft or land them on an asteroid, the blood wells up again, and I'm writing horror. Horror's my default setting. It's also where I prefer to write.

'Stargate' was more a fantasy.

It was 'ST' format to let space and alien worlds, rather than human weakness, provide the conflict and danger necessary to our adventure show.

I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.

[Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but which is hypothesised on the basis of some innovation in science or technology, or pseudo-science or pseudo-technology, whether human or extra-terrestrial in origin. It is distinguished from pure fantasy by its need to achieve verisimilitude and win the 'willing suspension of disbelief' through scientific plausibility.

I would agree 'Paul' is a sci-fi genre movie. And a road movie.

I've always been a fan of science fiction.

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

I have such a vivid memory of seeing science fiction movies and going to the lobby and playing whatever the space games were, and imagine I was blowing up the Death Star.

'Galaxy Quest' was cool to work on. When I first signed on, I really didn't know anything about it. I read the script, which I though was cool, but it wasn't until I saw the designs for the CG stuff that I knew it was going to be pretty sweet.

Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.

Speculative fiction is where my heart lies. It's what I read growing up, and it's what I read as an adult.

One of the problems with science fiction, which is probably one of the reasons why I haven't done one for many, many years, is the fact that everything is used up. Every type of spacesuit is used up, every type of spacecraft is vaguely familiar, the corridors are similar, and the planets are similar.

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

In science fiction, we're always searching for new frontiers. We're drawn to the unknown.

These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five year mission... to boldly go where no man has gone before.

I'm pretty sure my love affair with science-fiction started with ET.

Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own." ~Val

One of the liberating effects of science fiction when I was a teenager was precisely its ability to tune me into all sorts of strange data and make me realize that I wasn’t as totally isolated in perceiving the world as being monstrous and crazy

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