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-->--'''Percy Bysse Shelly''', summing up the genre his wife has just invented in the preface to ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}''.

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->''"Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only into the future, but into that wonderful place called "other", which is simply another universe, another planet, another species. It's things that happen inside your head."''
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-->--'''Percy Bysse Shelly''', summing up the genre his wife has just invented in the preface to ''{{Frankenstein}}''.

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->''"You know, the thing about ''Franchise/StarTrek'' is they use more theater people, [[ShakespearianActors Shakespearean-trained]]. (I've done a lot of Shakespeare, most of the Klingons have done a lot of Shakespeare.) And that's something about that ''Star Trek'' was unique--is unique. They tend to go with people who can operate in a strangely heightened reality and somehow make it as close to reality as you can. That's sci-fi, you know, that's what you need."''
-->--'''J. G. Hertzler'''
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->''"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 has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all."''

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->''"Individual science fiction stories may seem [[SciFiGhetto as trivial as ever ever]] to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - -- but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all."''
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->"''And our love is science\\

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->''"O lost my heart to a starship trooper\\
Flashing lights in hyper space\\
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Hand in hand we'll conquer space"''
-->--'''Music/SarahBrightman''' and '''Hot Gossip''', "I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper"
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Our love is science fiction"''
-->--'''The Hawk In Paris''', "Science Fiction"
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->''"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 has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all."''
-->-- '''Creator/IsaacAsimov'''
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-->--'''M. John Harrison''', author of ''{{Light}}''

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->''"The event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed, by Dr. Darwin, and some of the physiological writers of Germany, as not of impossible occurrence. I shall not be supposed as according the remotest degree of serious faith to such an imagination; yet, in assuming it as the basis of a work of fancy, I have not considered myself as merely weaving a series of supernatural terrors. The eve
nt on which the interest of the story depends is exempt from the disadvantages of a mere tale of spectres or enchantment. It was recommended by the novelty of the situations which it developes; and, however impossible as a physical fact, affords a point of view to the imagination for the delineating of human passions more comprehensive and commanding than any which the ordinary relations of existing events can yield."''

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->''"The event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed, by Dr. Darwin, and some of the physiological writers of Germany, as not of impossible occurrence. I shall not be supposed as according the remotest degree of serious faith to such an imagination; yet, in assuming it as the basis of a work of fancy, I have not considered myself as merely weaving a series of supernatural terrors. The eve
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->''"The event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed, by Dr. Darwin, and some of the physiological writers of Germany, as not of impossible occurrence. I shall not be supposed as according the remotest degree of serious faith to such an imagination; yet, in assuming it as the basis of a work of fancy, I have not considered myself as merely weaving a series of supernatural terrors. The eve
nt on which the interest of the story depends is exempt from the disadvantages of a mere tale of spectres or enchantment. It was recommended by the novelty of the situations which it developes; and, however impossible as a physical fact, affords a point of view to the imagination for the delineating of human passions more comprehensive and commanding than any which the ordinary relations of existing events can yield."''
-->--'''Percy Bysse Shelly''', summing up the genre his wife has just invented in the preface to ''{{Frankenstein}}''.
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Move extra quote to the quotes page. Philip K Dick was a fantastic writer. But Phil, really, some SF does try to predict the future. That is a fact. Now stop being dead and write another book.


->''Science fiction does not really try to predict the future. That is a fact. It's not debatable. That is not the role of science fiction, to predict the future. Science fiction books and stories are not judged on whether they come true or not. Because if that were the case there'd be '''one''' science fiction book: the right one.''
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->''Science ->''"SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy and addictive; it's fun. After that, for me, it's an opportunity to explore that kind of imaginative artifact from inside, and use a little camped-up contemporary science as a way of generating new metaphors around my typical obsessions."''
-->--'''M. John Harrison''', author of ''{{Light}}''

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fiction does not really try to predict the future. That is a fact. It's not debatable. That is not the role of science fiction, to predict the future. Science fiction books and stories are not judged on whether they come true or not. Because if that were the case there'd be '''one''' ''one'' science fiction book: the right one.''
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