Doris Lessing (1919–2013) British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer
Boston Book Review interview by Harvey Blume http://www.dorislessing.org/boston.html (February 1998)
“Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today — but the core of science fiction, its essence, the concept around which it revolves, has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.”
"My Own View" in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1978) edited by Robert Holdstock; later published in Asimov on Science Fiction (1981)
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“Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.”
Doris Lessing (1919–2013) British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer
The Guardian, London (7 November 1988)
“There is more to a science fiction story than the science it contains. There is also the story.”
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
Robot Dreams (1986), introduction
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“Yesterday's science fiction is today's prosaic, everyday reality.”
Garry Davis (1921–2013) American actor turned peace activist (1921-2013)
Letters to World Citizens (2004)
“Science Fiction is the fiction of ideas.”
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer
The Paris Review interview (2010)
Context: Science Fiction is the fiction of ideas. Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves. Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn’t exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.
“Science fiction offers its writers chances of embarrassment that no other form of fiction does.”
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
Robot Dreams (1986), introduction
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