Good Science Fiction Quotes

#1. Good science fiction has its roots in good science.

Dan Brown

#2. I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more good science fiction than anyone else alive.

Gardner Dozois

#3. A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present.

Pamela Sargent

#4. Thus "good science fiction" is a value term, not an objective thing, and yet, I think, there really is such a thing, objectively, as good science fiction.

Anonymous

#5. A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.

Jamais Cascio

#6. The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren't worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish, but good science fiction is the best and only literature of our times.

Robert Anton Wilson

#7. A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

Frederik Pohl

#8. NI love watching science fiction because I feel like when it's done well, it's not just monsters, but philosophy. Really good science fiction like, '2001,' for example, or the first 'Matrix.' But it takes someone who's got a brain and thinks in order to do really good science fiction.

Alan Arkin

#9. It's always great when you want scientific fact to get a really good science fiction writer to talk to you about it.

Robin Williams

#10. Good science fiction starts with a question "what if...?

Franklin Clermont

#11. 'Alien' is a landmark. One of the really good science-fiction films.

Ridley Scott

#12. Philadelphia's a good science-fiction town. There are many professional writers here, like Michael Swanwick, Tom Purdom, Gregory Frost, Victoria McManus and others. There are professional artists such as Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger and Susan McAninley.

Gardner Dozois

#13. Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract.

Nicolas Cage

#14. In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

Damon Lindelof

#15. One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn't really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can see it. She's 9 and it's really a good film for all ages.

Sigourney Weaver

#16. Jane woke, stretched, and decided to kill herself. If she hadn't found a reason to live by the end of the day she would jump from the rig. It felt good to have a plan.

Adam Baker

#17. I felt sure that [Oyarsa] was what we call "good," but I wasn't sure whether I liked "goodness" so much as I had supposed.

C.S. Lewis

#18. I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what you call obeying Him is but doing what seems good in your own eyes also. Is love content with that?

C.S. Lewis

#19. A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it.

Neil Gaiman

#20. I think what I love about science fiction and what sci-fi can be really good at is obviously you're working with outlandish concepts that have very little to do with the real world, like time travel for instance.

Rian Johnson

#21. We have a lot of suspicion of robots in the West. But if you look cross-culturally, that isn't true. In Japan, in their science fiction, robots are seen as good. They have Astro Boy, this character they've fallen in love with and he's fundamentally good, always there to help people.

Cynthia Breazeal

#22. If I can keep writing just one good page a day, I will have 15 published novels in my expected lifetime. Tick, tick, tick...

Barry James Hickey

#23. Science fiction and fantasy literature has always been defined by tales of heroism. It is meant to represent humanity at our very best, willing to oppose all odds in order to protect the side of good.

Mira Grant

#24. Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn't get too smart, because as soon as they get really smart, they're going to take over the world and kill us, or something like that. But why would they do that?

Luis Von Ahn

#25. Music can make you feel things that aren't yours - sadness, or love, or joy. A good song has a magic to it. It pulls you in and the feelings in the music take over and you become the music, you become the song.

Michelle Frost

#26. More likely they'd already been identified by the transponder code required on all privately owned vehicles. They were as good as dead.
"Hold on," Win said. "I know how to lose these guys."
With that he set him mouth in a grim line and banked sharply toward the canyon.

Marcha A. Fox

#27. For bedtime reading, I usually curl up with a good monograph on quantum physics or string theory, my specialty. But since I was a child, I have been fascinated by science fiction. My all-time favorite is 'The Foundation Trilogy,' by Isaac Asimov.

Michio Kaku

#28. I came into science fiction at a very good time, when the doors were getting thrown open to all kinds of more experimental writing, more literary writing, riskier writing. It wasn't all imitation Heinlein or Asimov. And of course, women were creeping in, infiltrating. Infesting the premises.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#29. It's a good day to do great things!

Randy Lipnitzky

#30. If we accept the premise that we're always wrong, it really removes the incentive to spend a lot of time trying to make good guesses because even the good guesses turn out to be wrong. So, make plausible guesses ... and tell a good story.

James S.A. Corey

#31. The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they should have the good manners to die. This, as you can see, they did.

Kurt Vonnegut

#32. When I think of war, I see blood. Pain and suffering. Nothing good comes from war.
But there is good. There will be an outcome. One side will find peace, solace. While the other will end in bitter loss.
There are two sides to the coin of war.

Hafsah Faizal

#33. Everything in this world, as well as the world itself, strives for balance and harmony. Electron reaches proton, male tends to female, light replaces darkness, life is balanced by death, and vice versa. And evil on one scale will inevitably lead to the appearance of good on the other.

Alexandr Iscenco

#34. I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't wait for the future when the special effects are good' to represent what was in these books by Arthur C. Clarke, Alfred Bester, Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard, Jack Vance.

Matt Groening

#35. I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.

Terry Pratchett

#36. You see death is a tool to degrade and destroy people, I see it as a life lesson that I use to empower myself and I remind myself that the dead are still alive. However, only the ones who are good, not evil pieces of shit like you will enjoy peace of mind

Angel Ramon Medina

#37. Graig looks at me and bares his teeth - a smile. His happy look. Sometimes he gives me a treat when I smile back, so I'm good at that now.

Lea Kirk

#38. Bentley is a good bee with a shaky sense of direction and an appetite for mayhem. Just don't call him a drone. He hates that.

John Hopkins

#39. The couch and I were what I would describe as frenemies. I loved to hate it. It was too small for my frame. I had tried to tell my wife that fact when we bought it off of Craigslist, but she assured me that it went perfectly with our room decor and it was a good deal.

Anna M. Aquino

#40. 'Alien' is a great movie. So is 'Close Encounters.' But I'm not the guy who goes out to the science-fiction festival. '2001's good.

David Duchovny

#41. I tend not to read or watch Science Fiction, particularly not comedy Science Fiction. The point is that if it's less good than what I do, there's no point in reading it, if it's better than what I do it makes me depressed

Douglas Adams

#42. The thinnest thing in the world is the border between good and evil ... my next The Opposite Of Magic.

Ivan Stoikov

#43. The beauty of a living organism-be it good or evil-is that it will follow the law of God with singular vision.
Be fruitful and multiply.
-Bertrand Zobrist

Dan Brown

#44. Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own.

Pamela Sargent

#45. If you act for self-gain then no good can come of it. If you act selflessly, then you act well for all and you must not be afraid.

Rand Miller

#46. Jake's in trouble.'
Luca rolled his eyes. 'What now?'
'He's gone off somewhere, I think I know where, and I don't think it's good.'
'Cant that boy ever stay in and watch telly like the rest of us?

Sharon Sant

#47. If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good.

John Twelve Hawks

#48. A recent survey of 2,000 male graduates of Harvard Business School
found that penis length & IQ were equally good predictors of annual
income.
from Eugene

Greg Egan

#49. Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least being lost in space kept you busy.

Douglas Adams

#50. Carver's best book yet! FROM A CHANGELING STAR combines deft characterization and fascinating extrapolation into a complex, compulsively readable thriller. I wish all science fiction novels could be this good.

Craig Shaw Gardner

#51. Good luck with the aliens, and if we survive this feel free to look me up on your next vacation."

"Good luck with the aliens? You are such a prick.

G.S. Jennsen

#52. Dirck's thoughts wandered to Creena. It was a good thing she wasn't there or she'd die, too. He shuddered to think of how she'd feel when she got back and everyone was dead. He'd never see her again and there was so much he wanted to tell her. Now he'd never have a chance.

Marcha A. Fox

#53. Remembering the good has also resurrected the bad.

Siobhan Davis

#54. I like the Sci Fi channel and 'Science Fiction Theatre.' I've been doing a lot of television-watching and thinking about good songs to write.

Roky Erickson

#55. Science fiction encourages us to explore ... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#56. Yes, rules are made to be broken -- but ONLY if you have a damn good reason for doing it.

Kevin Hosey

#57. Um. Ways in which a sentence beginning with the word "missiles" could be a good thing... Nope. I got nuthin'.

Dennis E. Taylor

#58. If you ever find yourself coming out of a time machine, run. Run away as fast you can. Don't stop. Don't try to talk. Nothing good can come out of it. narrator Charles Yu, not author Charles Yu p19

Charles Yu

#59. I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.

Sarah Zettel

#60. Is this how humanity waves good-bye?
Hell no.

Rick Yancey

#61. It is good practice to never fault someone for their birth name, being that it is always of far greater importance how men speak of you, than the name by which you are addressed.

Steven J. Carroll

#62. For the last 30 years our cinemas have been ruled by science fiction and horror. We've had some very good Fantasy films in that time period, but for my tastes I still haven't seen fantasy done to absolute perfection. That is the hope I have in this project.

Harry Knowles

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Douglas Adams

#64. It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.

Frank Herbert

#65. Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are a science fiction or fantasy writer, going to conventions and attending panels is very useful.

Patricia Briggs

#66. You can't kill an idea the way they try to. You can keep it down awhile, but sooner or later it'll come out. Now what you've got to understand is that the wheel's not evil. Never mind what the scared men all tell you. no discovery is good or evil until men make it that way. -The Wheel, John Wtndham

John Wyndham

#67. You're too much of a bitch to go gently into that good night."
"You should put that on a greeting card.

SE Zbasnik

#68. It's not enough to have good ideas, you need to master their implementation.

Rossi, Luca (2014-06-22). Galactic Energies: Science fiction and fantasy short stories (p. 20). . Kindle Edition.

Luca Rossi

#69. And like a good neighbor, Alpha Centauri is there.
Touched by an Alien

Gini Koch

#70. Hank looked upwards for a second or two and said, "Hmm - well, in the Japanese way, if we don't know for sure, we always tell the person the worst possible result. That way, when they find out the actual case, they can only have the good feeling.

Richard Cezar

#71. Let your life be a song. Let music be the background of whatever human things you will do for this blazing, spinning planet, and never let go of the good, never let go of the kindness.

Logan Keys

#72. When he flashed that rockin' smile of his again, I couldn't help but think that me being cute was what might be crossing his mind. Then again, maybe he thought I was a dumbass. Either way, he smiled, which was good enough for me. - Ariel

Victoria H. Smith

#73. No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.

Orson Scott Card

#74. I've had a lot of lieutenants over the years, and all the good ones were sick, sick individuals. You might be the best one yet.

Henry V. O'Neil

#75. It's interesting - I think superheroes get much more unfair derision. There are so many good superhero books being done. Science fiction is almost more reputable, I guess, at least a step up from poor superheroes.

Brian K. Vaughan