quotations about science fiction
The "hard" science-fiction writers are the ones who try to write specific stories about all that technology may do for us. More and more, these writers felt an opaque wall across the future. Once, they could put such fantasies millions of years in the future. Now they saw that their most diligent extrapolations resulted in the unknowable ... soon.
VERNOR VINGE
"The Coming Technological Singularity"
One good working definition of science fiction may be the literature which, growing with science and technology, evaluates it and relates it meaningfully to the rest of human existence.
H. BRUCE FRANKLIN
introduction, Future Perfect: American Science Fiction of the Nineteenth Century
Nothing is deader than yesterday's science-fiction.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE
The Sands of Mars