Top 100 Quotes About Scifi
#1. SciFi: When there's a serious problem and everyone decides to solve it sensibly.
Elaine Greywalker
#3. A good SciFi Author shows you an alien world; a great one takes you there.
Ray Jay Perreault
#4. The paucity of near-future U.S. scifi is about the country becoming pessimistic, not being able to see the future clearly. There's a trend in U.S. scifi towards militarism and far-future stuff.
Charles Stross
#5. Any story worth telling relates to real life in some meaningful way. Scifi allows you to tell meaningful stories without seeming too preachy - it adds a metaphorical layer between the story and the real world. Scifi is dismissed as ungrounded fluff, but it's actually the opposite.
Jane Espenson
#6. Critics have called alien epic 'Avatar' a version of 'Dances With Wolves' because it's about a white guy going native and becoming a great leader. But Avatar is just the latest scifi rehash of an old white guilt fantasy.
Annalee Newitz
#7. I am not a fan of the magical quick fix in any fiction, including fantasy, scifi and comic books. Unless Dr. Who is involved, and then only because we get to use the phrase 'Timey-wimey wibbliness' which, I'm sure you'll agree, there are not enough occasions to drop into ordinary adult conversation.
Chris Dee
#8. A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#9. I knew revenge like the ghost of an old friend." ~ #1001
Pippa DaCosta
#10. This is the Rock, sweetheart," the owner added. "There's no tragedy you can't profit from.
Henry Mosquera
#11. We'll go along with it for now. Valkyrie, keep close watch and be ready to swoop to the rescue."
'Hopefully swooping will not be required, nor rescue. But I am ready to do both.'
He squeezed her hand. "Alex?"
"I'm ready, too.
G.S. Jennsen
#12. Karl stood up and pointed at the large portraits on the wall. He swept the room from George Washington to Ben Franklin to John Adams to Thomas Jefferson. "Soldier, Printer, Lawyer, Scholar. You become a politician because the people make you one, not because you desire to be one.
Jeff Ferry
#13. Seems a lot of men never saw one such as me. A girl what could keep up and fight and ride and curse with the best of them. A girl what ain't trapped in some dress or some house or some bed. A girl what ain't waiting on some man to do what she ought to her own damn self.
J.D. Jordan
#14. Do you know what the people will say about this day thousands of years from now? What they will say about these creatures and their valiant last stand? Nothing... because we will not tell them. Oblivion is all there is for--
Jonathan Hickman
#16. Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.
Paul Di Filippo
#17. He stood on the ice, his teeth chattering in the cold, a cold that seemed to come not from the lake water or icy wind, but from a direct transmission from outer space.
Liu Cixin
#18. We have lived with the shadow of separation our entire lives. Before we even knew of each other's existence, fate conspired to keep us apart. We've always known it could come to this.
Siobhan Davis
#19. One of Zaphod's heads looked away. The other turned round to see what the first was looking at, but it wasn't looking at anything very much.
Douglas Adams
#20. To read is to live inside a new world...
R.L. Henry
#21. I would let you take me through a million nightmares if it meant that I could have one dream with you.
B. Mauritz
#22. If there was anything the last year had taught her - if there was anything Caleb had taught her, the Metigen War had taught her - it was that perspective was everything.
If you wanted to understand your enemy, you must understand that they were the hero in their own story.
G.S. Jennsen
#23. That got me to laughing too. His laughter, like his yelling, got into you until you was right soaked with it. So you couldn't help yourself. But it felt good. Light. I tell you, I hadn't felt like that in a long while.
J.D. Jordan
#24. You must learn to control your dreams or your dreams will forever control you.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#25. Metaphysically, his bowl filled and emptied at the same time. Violent and maniacal to push himself so far, he'd both created and destroyed his body's energy. In other words he had complete power, self-sustaining, self-sacrificing power at the origin of himself.
E.J. Koh
#26. Burying your head in the sand does not make you invisible it only leads to suffocation.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#27. They're only askin' you to do one thing. From what Rogue says, you ain't exactly reluctant."
"F**k myself into a coma. Sure, I can do that. Then what?"
"Uh, wait an hour?
Michelle O'Leary
#28. The only thing altruism will get you here is a boot stomping on your head.
Henry Mosquera
#29. I'm not bipolar, I've just had a bipolar life foisted upon me.
Daniel O'Malley
#30. Bite me. -Lieutenant Eve Dallas, from any of the In Death books.
J.D. Robb
#31. If you believe in yourself never doubt your abilities.
William Brazzel
#32. It's as if the railroad were looming on the horizon, and the most visionary thing the futurists of the day can think of to say about it is that these iron horses will have a disastrous effect on the hardworking manufacturers of oat-bags for horses.
Cory Doctorow
#33. Good science fiction has its roots in good science.
Dan Brown
#34. Remember what they did to Broadleaf, and remember what they did to us. Now it's time for us to kill 'em back.
Henry V. O'Neil
#35. You know what, Michael? I think this is the beginning of a beautiful relationship of loathing.
Meinos Kaen
#36. It felt somehow comforting to return to the sparkling lake tucked into the mountains on Portal Prime. But why, when everything about Mesme made her the antithesis of comfortable?
Because here was where desperation had become hope. Where helplessness had become purpose.
G.S. Jennsen
#37. Gently he probed her mouth, his tongue stroking hers in an erotic rhythm that had her nipples tightening and her pussy dampening.
Savannah Stuart
#39. If disguise was a vehicle, murder was a world.
E.J. Koh
#40. One of the first rules the Emperor had drummed into her [Mara Jade] so long ago was to blend in as best she could with her surroundings
Timothy Zahn
#41. Solutions sometimes present themselves after a reset.
Les Lynam
#43. It was a subversive notion, the idea that she was free. Free to choose where to go and what to do with her time.
G.S. Jennsen
#44. I looked up at the wall. My bachelor's degree had been in History. Films like Back to the Future and Quantum Leap had been some of my favorite programs. Could time travel really be possible? This seemed too unreal.
Anna M. Aquino
#45. Her own vague red trail created a livid atmosphere. She was like an avalanche and they were her nostalgia.
E.J. Koh
#48. Marisa starts to snoop. I might as well too. It's not often that I get to visit a water pellet company in a freaky refugee nation. -from Fireseed One
Catherine Stine
#49. For the first time as a scrabbling, bickering species we stood united. Every sodding person on the planet looked up today and whispered the same question, whether it be in awe, greed, or terror. What's Out there? Answers were sure to be forthcoming, ready or not.
B.P. Gregory
#50. This was my world: cold, tangled and distorted. -Keira
S.L. Wallace
#51. Alone for a few precious seconds, he drew in a deep breath. He stood on a ruined street in a ruined city. Destruction stretched for kilometers in every direction, all caused by a single man for whom vengeance had devolved into madness.
G.S. Jennsen
#52. If we don't dream. Then we will never know what we can become.
Dalian Artanian
#53. Slowly, Jimmy held up his outstretched hands. Men had been arguing for two hundred years about this gesture; would every creature, everywhere in the universe, interpret this as "See
no weapons"? But no one could think of anything better.
Arthur C. Clarke
#56. simplicity can often become failure. If you're not careful
Dalian Artanian
#57. Her mysteries had to be unravelled - so he would contain her until he'd dissected the truth of her and isolated her enigma.
Ronel Van Tonder
#58. I know who I am, and I'm being true to myself.
S.L. Wallace
#60. There is no brightness without darkness. There is no body without its shadow.
Jessica Khoury
#61. Three more awards received in 2017
Gold for Seb Cage Begins His Adventures
Gold for The Time Slipsters
Silver for The Deaduction Agency
Terry Tumbler
#62. As soon as Wang left the Research Center building, the nightmarelike feeling caught up to him. He felt like the starry sky was a magnifying glass that covered the world, and he was a tiny insect below the lens with nowhere to hide.
Liu Cixin
#63. Was still between Martha and Jane, then, I was. Between the girl I was and who I wanted to be.
J.D. Jordan
#65. To try is to invite uncertainty. Where confidence goes, success usually follows.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#66. What if winning the gold medal at the Olympics wasn't the end?
What if ... it was only the beginning?
Amanda Dubin
#67. The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
Douglas Adams
#68. They weren't people that liked change. They were the kind of people that would have tied change to a chair with dental floss if they could in order to avoid it. They were the type of people who desired to live in their virtual bubbles and grew to resent anyone that challenged that world.
Anna M. Aquino
#69. Time Dreams. They are memories of the soul. They encompass all Time. They exist in the space of a dream.
Tom Stafford
#70. I think we have different value systems." - Arthur
"Well mine's better." - Ford
Douglas Adams
#71. We love each other. You love me, you do." His eyes beseech me to believe it, to remember it, to feel it.
Siobhan Davis
#72. It's amazing how once the mind is free of emotional pollution, logic and clarity emerge.
Clyde DeSouza
#73. I see you have returned, my love; and your mood is as dark as ever. Did your soldiers not adore you to your complete satisfaction?
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#74. Can't count on no miracles. Sometimes, you just got to have a plan.
J.D. Jordan
#75. Brother, when you've been here as long as I have, you'll come to discover there are only one or two essential things worth living for. Unique to you and you alone. My honor is one of them for me. I keep my honor by keeping the relic out of their hands.
Brodi Ashton
#77. Business or profession?'
'I guess you'd call me a writer.'
No profession,' said the police car, as if talking to itself. The light held him fixed, like a museum specimen, needle thrust through chest.
Ray Bradbury
#78. Sci-fi doesn't show me much about alien's nature but shows a lot about North American nature.
Robin Sacredfire
#79. Adapt or die. It was savagely simple."
-- Celeste
ALL LIGHT WILL FALL
Almney King
#80. not knowing what I needed to do or where I needed to go, I knew all the same that I was going in the right direction.
J.D. Jordan
#82. She would rather remain silent, but her voice is no longer something to fear. It's strong. Powerful. A weapon of emotions.
Laura Kreitzer
#83. Not only can I see perfectly in the dark, but I can sense the molecular makeup of every object in the room.
J. Lee Roberts
#84. Drainage tubes ran out of his belly and side, and there was a catheter the size of a pencil coming out his penis. Nothing particularly hurt, so he had to assume he was on pretty nearly all the narcotics there were.
James S.A. Corey
#85. You'd be surprised what I can do with a butter knife.
S.L. Wallace
#86. It seemed to her that living without control of your own will was hardly a step above not living at all.
Jessica Khoury
#87. Narrow, angular features, pouty lips and hatred-filled pale, washed-out blue irises glared back at him.
Caleb flashed the young man a malevolent smirk and readied his blade. "Jude Winslow, I presume.
G.S. Jennsen
#88. Are you . . . a policeman?"
"No. They'll be along shortly, I expect. Public suicide's a felony."
". . . I'm sorry.
James Tiptree Jr.
#89. He checked her over while mentally checking himself. "Environment suits sealed up. Breather masks in hand. Daemons. Blades. Transmitters. Healthy respect for the adversary - you've got that, right?"
One corner of her mouth curled up. "Absolutely.
G.S. Jennsen
#90. This world was no place for anyone with access to another.
Joe Haldeman
#91. It's Halloween, you can tell everyone you're going as your favorite Steampunck character."
"I don't even know what that is!"
"Because your generation has no taste in speculative science fiction.
Girl Vs Monster
#92. Love can provide strength when intellect can find no reason for it.
Susan Waterwyk
#93. A kind of childlike purity to her repose that made the thought of kissing her seem vile.
Jessica Khoury
#94. Isn't antimatter what fuels the U.S.S.
Enterprise?
Dan Brown
#96. She slept a dreamless sleep free of dragons for she had slain them once again. The Children of Ankh
Kim Cormack
#97. Don't matter none how bad it gets sometimes. You can always turn this shit around.
J.D. Jordan
#98. Not much of a childhood, Cass. When did you get to play?"
With a frown, she said, "I played."
"You took apart your robot dog.
Michelle O'Leary
#100. Semantics, Admiral. I'd appreciate an honest answer."
"I'd appreciate a multitude of honest answers, but I rarely expect to receive them." Miriam sighed; the verbal tete-a-tete was growing tiresome. Time to bring an end to it with, ironically, honesty.
G.S. Jennsen
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