“Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.”
Michael Dirda (1948) American literary critic
Introduction to the Everyman's Library edition of The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov, p. viii.
“For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.”
— C. J. Cherryh, book Visible Light
The Collected Short Fiction of C. J. Cherryh (2004) – from the introduction to "Visible Light"
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