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Science fiction is essentially a kind of fiction in which people learn more about how to live in the real world, visiting imaginary worlds unlike our own in order to investigate, by way of pleasurable thought-experiments, how things might be done differently.

~Brian Stableford

Topics: About Differently Done Essentially Fiction How Imaginary Investigate Kind Learn Live Might More Order Our Own People Pleasurable Real Real World Science Science Fiction The Real World Things Unlike Visiting Way Which World Worlds

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Writers can express ideas and emotions that are important to them but have no other means of expression. Some of these ideas may be fantastic, and some of the emotions may be given clearer voice in fantastic fiction.

~Brian Stableford

Topics: Clearer Emotions Express Expression Fantastic Fiction Given Ideas Important May Means Other Some Them Voice Writers

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From the viewpoint of the writer, the most significant aspect of fantasy and science fiction is that stories of these kinds are either set in imaginary worlds or feature the appearance in the familiar world of some imaginary entity.

~Brian Stableford

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Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.

~Brit Marling

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It's not highly intellectual material. I'm dedicating it to the pulp fiction of the past.

~Bruce Boxleitner

Topics: Fiction Highly Intellectual Material Past Pulp Pulp Fiction

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They've also asked me now to start on another series that we're gonna do after this Frontier Earth. But it's not science fiction, it's more in the Mystery and Crime division and that's another area I'm very interested in.

~Bruce Boxleitner

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Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.

~Buddy Ebsen

Topics: Fiction Increases Limits Long Paper Value Write Writing You

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As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction.

~Buzz Aldrin

Topics: English Fiction Reports Science Science Fiction Student Wrote

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For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.

~C. J. Cherryh

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I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.

~Caleb Carr

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