Mary Shelley may well have invented science fiction. I think she did! But after that it seemed to be a boys’ game.
– William Gibson
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- 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 future is there… looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. – William Gibson
- She saw and marked the revolutions that had been, and the present seemed to her only a point of rest, from which time was to renew his flight. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Life is a game. We must keep playing the game. The more we play, the more we will understand the game of life. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Every game has rules. Obey the rules, win the game; disobey the rule, lose it! The game of life has loser and winners. Play fairly and win! – Israelmore Ayivor
- Every game has rules. Life’s a game that has its respective rules; obey the rules, win the game! – Israelmore Ayivor
- Novelists are basically inviting their readers to play a game of pretend. That’s what fiction is: a game of pretend. – Marty Rubin
- 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
- Jesus, Mary and Joseph, isn’t war the most demented activity ever invented? – Mary Pat Kelly
- 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
- Everything that can be invented has been invented. – Charles H Duell
- 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
- What you hold in your consciousness tends to manifest-”the inner game runs the outer game. – William A Adams
- I write fiction. It may have mystery, it may have horror, it may have fantasy, it may have love, but like life, it’s all the same genre. – Don Roff
- I understood books. I did not understand boys-”especially alien boys. – Jennifer L Armentrout
- Amy: Pond and her boys . . . my poncho boys. If we’re going to die, let’s die looking like a peruvian folk band. – Simon Nye
- The phrase -˜Boys will be boys,’ reflects that a male child is expected to be unpredictable and occasionally troublesome. – Kilroy J Oldster
- Some boys… Are perfect shits. & other boys are very, very beautiful. – Benjamin Alire Senz
- Lying on my bed, my brain cyclones with thoughts of men and boys and boys and men. All making the wrong choices. – SM Parker
- I was attracted to girly boys and boyish girls, or girls who later became boys. Boy were always going to be part of the equation. – Zoe Whittall
- Science fiction has no ceiling. – William Donelson
- The steam engine has done much more for science than science has done for the steam engine. – William Thomson
- That’s something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: The most interesting applications turn up on a battlefield, or in a gallery. – William Gibson
- His smile was the nightmare in my back pocket.(Speaking about Ronald Reagan) – William Gibson
- When you want to know how things really work, study them when they’re coming apart. – William Gibson
- The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed. – William Gibson
- The future is already here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet. – William Gibson
- Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye. – William Gibson
- Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky. – William Gibson
- Secrets…are the very root of cool. – William Gibson
- Things aren’t different. Things are things. – William Gibson