“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)
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“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.
Mitt Romney (1947) American businessman and politician
Fox News interview, , quoted in [2007-04-30, Romney Favors Hubbard Novel, Jim Rutenberg, The Caucus, The New York Times, http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/04/30/romney-favors-hubbard-novel/]
asked his favorite novel
2007 campaign for Republican nomination for United States President
Carl Sagan book Broca's Brain
Source: Broca's Brain (1979), Chapter 9, “Science Fiction—A Personal View” (p. 166)
“Truth becomes fiction when the fiction's true;
Real becomes not-real when the unreal's real.”
Cao Xueqin book Dream of the Red Chamber
Jia zuo zhen shi zhen yi jia,
Wu wei you chu you huan wu.
Source: Dream of the Red Chamber (c. 1760), Chapter 5
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)
Valentino Braitenberg (1926–2011) Italian-Austrian neuroscientist
Source: Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology (1984), p. 1
“There is no such thing as science fiction, there is only science eventuality.”
Steven Spielberg (1946) American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur
The Making of Jurassic Park