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I put tape on the mirrors in my house so I don't accidentally walk through into another dimension.

~ Steven Wright

Steven Wright Humor Sci Fi Sf

By now you must have guessed: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, Take me to your leaders. Even I - unused to your ways though I am - would never make that mistake. We ourselves have such beings among us, made of cogs, pieces of paper, small disks of shiny metal, scraps of coloured cloth. I do not need to encounter more of them.Instead I will say, Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers; take me to your deaths.These are worth it. These are what I have come for.

~ Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood Alien Death Dreams Life Philosophy Sf

Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know.

~ Ted Chiang

Ted Chiang Genre Knowledge Science Fiction Sf Writing

Once a Buddha, always a Buddha, Sam. Dust off some of your old parables. You have about fifteen minutes.' Sam held out his hand. Give me some tobacco and a paper.

~ Roger Zelazny

Roger Zelazny Buddhism Funny Religion Sf

Some guys step on a rake in the dark, and get mad and go punch somebody. Others step on a rake in the dark and fall down laughing at themselves. I know which kind of guy I'd rather be. So do my friends.

~ Spider Robinson

Spider Robinson Callahan Comedy Friendship Humour Sf

Step up to red alert.Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb. - Rimmer & Kryten, Red Dwarf

~ Rob Grant

Rob Grant Humour Red Dwarf Science Fiction Sf

A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.

~ Alastair Reynolds

Alastair Reynolds Politics Sf Social Commentary

Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?Because the world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your Machiavellian scheming.

~ Roger Zelazny

Roger Zelazny Politics Sf

I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot of the same situations we do. It's instructive to imagine how they would react, with different technologies on different worlds. That's why I write science fiction -- even though the term 'science fiction' excites disdain in certain persons.

~ Kage Baker

Kage Baker Genre History Human Experience Past And Future Past And Present Science Fiction Sf

Lend me your wings, bird. I'll spread them and fly on the thermals.

~ Stephen King

Stephen King Fantasy Sf The Dark Tower The Gunslinger

Answer me immediately or I'll start cutting away everything that's pretty on you...and then put it back.

~ Richard Finney

Richard Finney Comic Book Fantasy Sf

You retain the Ki. Whether or not you become a warrior is for you to discover.

~ Richard Finney

Richard Finney Fantasy Graphic Novel Sf

Rover did not know in the least where the moon's path led to, and at present he was much too frightened and excited to ask, and anyway he was beginning to get used to extraordinary things happening to him.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

J.r.r. Tolkien Adventure Extraordinary Sf

He turns off the techno-shit in his goggles. All it does is confuse him, he stands there reading statistics about his own death even as it's happening to him. Very post-modern.

~ Neal Stephenson

Neal Stephenson Cyberpunk Science Fiction Sf

It's--my God--like you stretched a tarp across a stadium to turn it into a giant tom-tom and crashed a 747 into it.

~ Neal Stephenson

Neal Stephenson Science Fiction Sf

Nobody ever kills everybody anywhere, big man. Somebody always gets away.

~ Henry V. O'neil

Henry V. O'neil Commando Science Fiction Sf Survival

You can use logic to justify just about anything, that's its power and it's flaw.

~ Captain Katherine Janeway

Captain Katherine Janeway Gene Roddenberry Science Fiction Sf Star Trek References Star Trek Voyager

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

George Zebrowski Science Fiction Sf Wonder Writing

But it wasn't anyone! ... What could I say I was a freak - an Empty.

~ S.m. Stuart

S.m. Stuart Coming Of Age Murder Sf Ya

To my surprise, the sensation of query filled my stomach, spreading through to every corner. This was followed by each point of query ending at the same answer. Device Nineteen had responded to the question by coming to the conclusion that oblivion was the end of every

~ J. Cameron Mcclain

J. Cameron Mcclain Ghosts Robots Sf Speculative Fiction

The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden.

~ Roger Zelazny

Roger Zelazny Battle Dawn Sf
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