“Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.”
Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
“A rustic setting always suggests fantasy; to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets.”
Quoted by Mary Robinette Kowal in " Precogs and Ray Guns Have No Place In True SciFi http://blogs.amctv.com/scifi-scanner/2009/09/science-fantasy.php". <br class="br">Attributed
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