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Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases.

~David Brin

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Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

~David Brin

Topics: Age Best Change Deal Does Explore Feature Fiction How Literature Our People Principal Science Science Fiction Should

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I'm a science fiction author at heart, and what I like about the Cthulhu Mythos setting is that, at its core, it is horror science fiction. I can take ideas from modern theoretical science, manipulate them in truly bizarre and weird ways, and remain true to the Cthulhu Mythos vision.

~David Conyers

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I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.

~David Eddings

Topics: Extreme Fiction General Hesitate Mankind Opinion Optimistic Period Popularity Predict Science Science Fiction Then Theory True Whether

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Fiction's about what it is to be a human being.

~David Foster Wallace

Topics: About Being Fiction Human Human Being

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I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.

~David Foster Wallace

Topics: Art Exploring Fiction Human Just Means Think Today

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In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.

~David Frum

Topics: Fiction Happened Journalism Only Show Tell I Can

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'Dreams from My Father' was not a memoir or an autobiography; it was instead, in multitudinous ways, without any question a work of historical fiction.

~David Garrow

Topics: Any Autobiography Dreams Father Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Instead Memoir Question Ways Without Work

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This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.

~David Gemmell

Topics: Change Fantasy Feed Fiction Lives Magic Real Souls

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'Star Trek' is the McDonald's of science fiction; it's fast food storytelling. Every problem is like every other problem. They all get solved in an hour. Nobody ever gets hurt, and nobody needs to care. You give up an hour of your time, and you don't really have to get involved. It's all plastic.

~David Gerrold

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