Steampunk is Victorian science fiction
– GD Falksen
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- You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history – Iain Banks
- I love science fiction, always have, always will. But it’s the kind of science fiction that I love which I think is an important distinction. – Matthew S Williams
- Magic is only unexplained science. Science is explained magic. When I study science, I study magic. When I study magic, I study science. – C JoyBell C
- The Victorian era was perhaps the last point in Western history when magic and science were allowed to coexist. – Jonathan Auxier
- Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown. – Charles Stross
- I like stories about supervillains. They teach children that you can accomplish great things even when the whole world is against you. – GD Falksen
- General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else. – Marvin Minsky
- If contemporary literary fiction doesn’t read a bit like science fiction then it’s probably not all that contemporary, is it – Warren Ellis
- Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams. – Freeman Dyson
- Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. – Susan Sontag
- Everything’s science fiction until someone makes it science fact – Marie Lu
- Good science fiction has its roots in good science. – Dan Brown
- Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible. – Rod Serling
- I am constantly amazed by how much stranger science is than science fiction – Marcus Chown
- Give me the Black Death over a Victorian prude any day. At least the dying screw like it’s their last day on earth. – RE Vance
- Enlarged sympathy with children was one of the chief contributions made by the Victorian English to real civilization. – George Macaulay Trevelyan
- Modern Christians should not mistake our post-Victorian sense of propriety for moral purity. – Gene Edward Veith Jr
- the whole of Victorian literature done up in grey paper & neatly tied with string – Virginia Woolf
- Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience. – Joyce Rachelle
- To spin the tale with great flourish but never live the tale is the power of vision strangled to fiction by the fiction of fear. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of fiction. – AE Samaan
- Fiction is only fiction because it is yet to be proven. – Robert M Roberts
- Non fiction? Non fiction?! Listen, reality is what got me into this mess in the first place. – Justin Alcala
- Fiction described reality better than non-fiction. – Tommy Wallach
- I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows. – EM Forster
- It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. – Mark Twain
- Memory is like fiction: or else it’s fiction that’s like memory. – Haruki Murakami
- Memory is like fiction: or else it’ fiction that’s like memory. – Haruki Murakami
- All story fiction is both truth that happens and never happens. Fiction is always about humanity, even if no subject is humanitarian or even human. – Richard Bunning
- Writing fiction is fun. Writing non-fiction is life-changing. – AD Posey
- We make fiction because we are fiction … It lived us into being and it lives us still. – Russell Hoban
- Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction. – John Cheever
- Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn’t. – Neil Gaiman
- I’d always had a guilty preference for fiction. Since I seemed now to be living fiction, this proved to have been an entirely reasonable choice. – Robin McKinley
- The difference between nonfiction and fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable. – Mark Twain
- Since truth is often stranger than fiction, fiction needs to be pretty weird. – Erik Meyer
- To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention. – Ursula K Le Guin
- I don’t want to write soft, easy fiction; I want to write fiction that challenges. – Brian A McBride
- Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate. – Alan Moore
- Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities. – Miriam Allen de Ford