Ray Bradbury
Author
"A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem."
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Kurt Vonnegut
Novelist, Satirist
"What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I'm told."
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
"While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me. To fall into a black hole, that is more amazing than anything I've ever read in a science-fiction story."
Gene Wolfe
Author
"I could speculate, but it would be just speculation and the kind of thing that you would get in with a science fiction story. And if I was doing a science fiction story then I would come up with what can go wrong with this system."
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