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Ray Bradbury
: First of all, I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal.
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Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
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Susan Sontag :
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Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
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Ursula K Le Guin :
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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Doris Lessing :
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Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
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Isaac Asimov :
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today -- but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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Philip K Dick :
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Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.
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Isaac Asimov :
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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr :
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I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled Science Fiction and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.
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J G Ballard :
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We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind -- mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goods, the preempting of any free or original imaginative response to experience by the television screen. We live inside an enormous novel. For the writer in particular it is less and less necessary for him to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer's task is to invent the reality.
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You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.
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You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down
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We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.
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Touch a scientist and you touch a child.
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The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance— the idea that anything is possible.
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Only six months ago, I discovered that, over the years, some cubby-hole editors at Ballantine Books, fearful of contaminating the young, had, bit by bit, censored some 75 separate sections from the novel. Students, reading the novel which, after all, deals with the censorship and book-burning in the future, wrote to tell me of this exquisite irony. Judy-Lynn Del Rey, one of the new Ballantine editors, is having the entire book reset and republished this summer with all the damns and hells back in place.
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If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
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Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
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