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If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it

If contemporary literary fiction doesn’t read a bit like science fiction then it’s probably not all that contemporary, is it
– Warren Ellis

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  3. 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
  4. it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls. – Muriel Spark
  5. As an outsider I was free to pick my own literary traditions, to build my own system of literary values. – Dubravka Ugrei
  6. Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. – RL Stine
  7. Good science fiction has its roots in good science. – Dan Brown
  8. the great advantage of really contemporary fiction is that one finds oneself mirror on every page – Peter Ackroyd
  9. the great advantage of really contemporary fiction is that one finds oneself mirrored on every page – Peter Ackroyd
  10. 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
  11. Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams. – Freeman Dyson
  12. Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. – Susan Sontag
  13. Everything’s science fiction until someone makes it science fact – Marie Lu
  14. Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible. – Rod Serling
  15. I am constantly amazed by how much stranger science is than science fiction – Marcus Chown
  16. All art requires is courage and the commitment to eat lots of biscuits. D Ellis / 2016 – David Ellis
  17. And read-¦ read all the time-¦ read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life. – David McCullough Jr
  18. If you can read the book and say, -˜Space Marines, YEEEAAAHHH!’ That’s Military Science Fiction.- (Brigham Young writing lecture, March 2012) – Brandon Sanderson
  19. The future sneaks up on us. It leaks in through the small, ordinary things. – Warren Ellis
  20. The two most dangerous things in the world are rich people and crazy people. – Warren Ellis
  21. Time was this place didn’t make sense and I could live with it. Either it’s changed, or I have. – Warren Ellis
  22. Mister Sun wondered if he really believed it was true that the heart is just a pump. – Warren Ellis
  23. Being a nun wasn’t all it was cracked up to be and the sex was shit. – Warren Ellis
  24. That was a stupid idea I made up while drunk. Why did someone build that? – Warren Ellis
  25. Yeah, trust the ????head. – Warren Ellis
  26. The best gifts are never given, but claimed. – Warren Ellis
  27. If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set? – Warren Ellis
  28. I was happiest when I was working for myself. Setting my own goals. Improving my own skills-¦ Take control of your world. – Warren Ellis
  29. I can’t solve any problems. All I can do is try to make sure people can’t avoid noticing them. – Warren Ellis
  30. The ambition of much of today’s literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination. – Charles Simic
  31. The literary man re-reads, other men simply read. – CS Lewis
  32. I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman arrives soon. – Catherine Astolfo
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  34. open science is returning science to its true essence – Mayank Trivedi
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  36. Contemporary’ was in those days [1953] synonymous with ‘modern’ as it had not been before and is not now [1977]. – AS Byatt
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  38. Innovation is the heart of humanity. We need new ideas and new creativities to help address contemporary issues. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  39. Contemporary Christian church would normally think that things are impossible – Sunday Adelaja
  40. I think the main function of contemporary irony is to protect thespeaker from being interpreted as naive or sentimental. – David Foster Wallace

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