Science Fiction Quotes

Despite what your science fiction writers dream, we simply don't have the technology

~ Stephenie Meyer

The problem with heroes and villains is that it’s not always easy to tell which is which. Particularly when you are one.

~ Jessica Meats

In other words - and this is the rock-solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation's Galaxywide success is founded - their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws.

~ Douglas Adams

He had been trying to measure the distance between the earth and God.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

You stumble upon an unhappy Martian sentry on a mission and shoot ineffectually at his powersuit a few times before he pulps you with his laserbeam eyes and hideous poisonous-gas breath. Glory!

~ Daniel Keidl

The front edge of the shockwave impacts the earth and you’re both shoved to your backs against the crumbling asphalt of the parking lot, and then crushed into oblivion as the Earth, along with every celestial body of your solar system, is disintegrated into tiny shards and then sucked unceremoniously into the resulting black hole.

~ Daniel Keidl

...hence the very best science fiction ultimately winds up being a collaboration between author and reader, in which both create - and enjoy it; joy is the essential and final ingredient of science fiction, the joy of discovery of newness

~ Philip K. Dick

As they walked, it seemed almost every building had some similar contrivance as decoration, adorning the street in a cacophony of clangs, bangs and whirs. The street’s surroundings danced with steam and smoke, the scent of oil and grease its perfume.

~ A.f. Stewart

It helps if you don’t think of them as human. More than one officer has called this job pest control.

~ Christine Amsden

flies can't help eatin' shit cause that's where their tastes lead 'em

~ E.d. Lynnellen

A stitch in time saves uncontrollable blood loss

~ Simon Haynes

In a thousand years, Fred, no one will even know or care we existed.

~ David Marusek

I am Ubik. Before the universe was, I am. I made the suns. I made the worlds. I created the lives and the places they inhabit; I move them here, I put them there. They go as I say, then do as I tell them. I am the word and my name is never spoken, the name which no one knows. I am called Ubik, but that is not my name. I am. I shall always be.

~ Philip K. Dick

I maintain that cultural sensitivity should be replaced by cultural awareness. Awareness implies research, consideration, thought, and judiciousness....Sensitivity denies equal access to language. It segregates and censors based on the background of the writer rather than the content of the story. No society can embrace cultural sensitivity and retain full capacity for freedom of speech.

~ Scott M. Roberts

Caches of data are being recovered all the time. Why, just the other day, I heard that we now had complete texts for all three of Shakespire's plays!

~ Dan Abnett

They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners.

~ Michael Crichton

Enemy?’ Horus laughed. ‘When did they become the enemy? They are men like us.’ He glared up at the night sky, threw back his head and screamed a curse at the stars. Then his voice fell to a whisper. Loken was close enough to hear his words.‘Why have you tasked me with this, father? Why have you forsaken me? Why? It is too hard. It is too much. Why did you leave me to do this on my own?

~ Dan Abnett

The obsession with correct political belief and expression in art is stultifying the genre as it is necessarily exclusive. We are losing our voice in artificial, forced homogeny posing as tolerance. Propaganda-disguised-as-story drives readers away as agenda takes the place of wonder, excitement, character. and conflict.

~ Scott M. Roberts

The Googleplex Star Thinker is a super-computer from the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity and has the ability to calculate the trajectory of every single dust particle during a five-week Dangrabad Beta sand blizzard.The Deep Thought computer call it a pocket calculator in comparison to itself.

~ Douglas Adams

The finest SF comes to grips with life's mysteries, with our resentments against our own natures and our limited societies. It does so by asking basic questions in the artful, liberating way that is unique to this form of writing. Echoes of it are found in other forms of fiction - in the novel of ideas, in the historical novel, in the writings of the great philosophers and scientists; but the best SF does this all more searchingly, by taking what is in most people only a moment of wonder and rebellion against the arbitrariness of existence and making of it an art enriched by knowledge and possibility, expressing our deepest human longing to penetrate into the dark heart of the unknown.

~ George Zebrowski

Quote from Frontiers:Regardless of what happened, it was definitely going to be an exciting time for everyone, the day humanity first reached out to touch the stars.

~ Jeff W. Horton

The sands of time blew into a storm of images... Images in sequence to tell the truth! Glorious legends of revolutionaries, bound only by a desire to be true to themselves... And to hope! Parables of colliding worlds, of forbidden love... of enemies healing the wounds of circumstance! Projected myth of persecution through greed and selfishness... And the will to survive! The Will to survive! And to survive in the face of those who claim credit for your very existence! We survive not as pawns, but as agents of hope... Sometimes misunderstood, but always true to our story. The story of man.

~ Scott Morse

How typical of a machine to think it knows better.

~ Vasileios Kalampakas

Yes, 1960’s North American sitcoms have led me to study the United States 1920’s and 1930’s crime bosses— QET Jenkins

~ Kim Welsman

One can lose themselves in the twilight, when there are no colors to guide the way.

~ Vanna Smythe

Doubt is what keeps the heart and mind of every man alive. It 's what makes us think twice.

~ Vasileios Kalampakas

By focusing on the interior of a speaker's larynx and using infrared, he was able to convert the visible vibrations of the vocal cords into sound of fair quality, but that did not satisfy him. He worked for a while on vibrations picked up from panes of glass in windows and on framed pictures, and he experimented briefly with the diaphragms in speaker systems, intercoms and telephones. He kept on into October without stopping, and finally achieved a device that would give tinny but recognizable sound from any vibrating surface - a wall, a floor, even the speaker's own cheek or forehead.

~ Damon Knight

It was the storm that would forever change the course of human destiny.

~ Jeff W. Horton

I’m not sure sex qualifies as R and R, but it’s a compromise I can live with.

~ Shelby Morgen

I've got my own toilet. -- Grace Harper

~ Christine Amsden

You're a kid. I didn't know we taught kids manners anymore.

~ Christine Amsden

It's just one thing after another. Cars that won't run. Planes that will never fly again. Computer systems we can barely use, let alone re-create. It's like...time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future.

~ Dan Wells

Fleshers used to spin fantasies about aliens arriving to ‘conquer’ Earth, to steal their ‘precious’ physical resources, to wipe them out for fear of ‘competition’…as if a species capable of making the journey wouldn’t have had the power, or the wit, or the imagination, to rid itself of obsolete biological imperatives. Conquering the Galaxy is what bacteria with spaceships would do – knowing no better, having no choice.

~ Greg Egan

I see you have returned, my love; and your mood is as dark as ever. Did your soldiers not adore you to your complete satisfaction?

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Verily, a man without fear is either dead or happy to die.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Burying your head in the sand does not make you invisible it only leads to suffocation.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

It's Halloween, you can tell everyone you're going as your favorite Steampunck character.I don't even know what that is!Because your generation has no taste in speculative science fiction.

~ Girl Vs Monster

And Elvex said, I was the man. - In Robot dreams (Short story)

~ Isaac Asimov

Asleep you can experience many hours whilst only a few waking moments have passed. This is why dreams are an ideal platform for training.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who arose from other evolutionary paths and see not beasts but brothers, not rivals by fellow pilgrims journeying to the shrine of intelligence. Yet that is what I see, or yearn to see. The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged but in the creature judging, and when we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have.

~ Orson Scott Card