“Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all”
Philip Pullman His Dark Materials trilogy
Source: His Dark Materials
“A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content.”
As quoted in The Issue at Hand: Studies in Contemporary Magazine Science Fiction (1964) by James Blish, p. 14
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