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And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.
Octavia E. Butler
You
Science
Way
Out
Kind
Kindred
Point
Science Fiction
Fiction
Wanted
Grim
Note
Fantasy
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.
Octavia E. Butler
Science
Way
Totally
About
Open
Science Fiction
Conditional
Fiction
Thing
Wide
No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.
Octavia E. Butler
Me
Science
Natural
Writing
Guide
Would
Take
Had
No-One
Towards
Science Fiction
Going
Stop
Fiction
Interest
Really
I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.
Octavia E. Butler
You
Science
Walls
Able
Examining
Open
Attracted
Because
Science Fiction
Were
Condition
Human
Stopped
Fiction
Anything
Human Condition
Wide
What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them; they were born that way.
Octavia E. Butler
Me
Science
Become
Back
Considering
Way
Bit
Kind
Vampire
Vampires
Born
Someone
Although
Because
Were
Story
Them
Fantasy
Turning
Working
Now
Biological
What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future, but it's always based on what we have. Then, as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas.
Olga Kurylenko
Love
Future
Time
Science
Generation
New Things
Every
Films
Our
About
Point
New
Ideas
Know
Make
Sci-Fi
Always
Discover
Movies
Then
Based
Grows
Things
When I was a young girl, I was so crazy about animals that I wanted to do something associated with them, and I thought of being a vet. But then again, I figured I had to go to medical school, and science wasn't a good subject for me, so I dropped the idea pretty soon and thought maybe I could be a vet's assistant.
Olivia Newton-John
Good
Me
Crazy
Science
School
Thought
Girl
Animals
Young
Pretty
About
Something
Could
Had
Dropped
Idea
Soon
Go
Subject
Vet
Maybe
Being
Wanted
Young Girl
Again
Them
Then
Figured
Medical
Medical School
Assistant
Associated
I've always been a fan of science fiction.
Olivia Wilde
Science
Science Fiction
Always
Been
Fiction
Fan
Avoid the spectacle of technology and instead focus on technology and science solving real problems.
Om Malik
Technology
Science
Problems
Focus
Solving
Instead
Real
Real Problems
Avoid
Spectacle
Science is going to be revolutionized by AI assistants.
Oren Etzioni
Science
AI
Revolutionized
Going
Assistants
An AI utopia is a place where people have income guaranteed because their machines are working for them. Instead, they focus on activities that they want to do, that are personally meaningful like art or, where human creativity still shines, in science.
Oren Etzioni
Art
Science
Creativity
People
AI
Focus
Machines
Instead
Like
Because
Still
Shines
Human
Where
Want
Place
Them
Personally
Meaningful
Working
Activities
Income
Utopia
Guaranteed
Infrastructure investment in science is an investment in jobs, in health, in economic growth and environmental solutions.
Oren Etzioni
Environmental
Health
Science
Jobs
Solutions
Economic
Economic Growth
Investment
Infrastructure
Growth
Politics is not an exact science.
Otto von Bismarck
Politics
Science
Exact
The development of physics, like the development of any science, is a continuous one.
Owen Chamberlain
Science
Physics
Development
Like
Continuous
Any
The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.
Owen Chamberlain
Science
Past
Research
Structure
Only
Firm
Built
Gradually
Whole
Foundation
Grows
'Floating Worlds,' published in 1975 and the lone science fiction novel by acclaimed historical novelist Cecelia Holland, was unique in being completely devoid of the usual pulp influences present in much space opera up to that time.
Pamela Sargent
Time
Science
Space
Worlds
Lone
Opera
Devoid
Science Fiction
Historical
Up
Being
Fiction
Influences
Holland
Much
Unique
Usual
Novel
Novelist
Floating
Published
Present
Pulp
Some people become passionate readers and fans of science fiction during childhood or adolescence. I picked up on SF somewhat later than that; my escape reading of choice during my youth was historical novels, and one of my favorite writers was Mary Renault.
Pamela Sargent
Science
Youth
People
Fans
Some People
Reading
Become
Later
Favorite
Some
Adolescence
Somewhat
Mary
Writers
Picked
Readers
Science Fiction
Passionate
Historical
Up
Escape
Than
Childhood
Fiction
Choice
Novels
Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own.
Pamela Sargent
Good
Science
Writing
Reading
Own
Preparation
Worlds
Our
Unlike
About
Both
Writer
Science Fiction
Historical
Historical Fiction
Fiction
Fiction Writer
Novelist
Actually
A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present.
Pamela Sargent
Future
Good
History
Science
Writing
Feeling
Past
Appreciating
Our
Run
Through
Almost
Between
Science Fiction
Past And Future
Essential
Fiction
Sensing
Connections
Present
In life, we have two segments: arts and science. We need science to make our lives easier. But what do we live for? We enjoy life through arts. So it's an artistes duty to question the wrongs happening in the society.
Pankaj Tripathi
Life
Science
Enjoy Life
Duty
Live
Enjoy
Society
Our
Our Lives
Easier
Segments
Through
Wrongs
Make
Question
Arts
Happening
Lives
Two
Need
Well I don't think of myself as like a horror or science fiction filmmaker. I just think of myself as a filmmaker.
Panos Cosmatos
Myself
Science
Think
Horror
Like
Well
Science Fiction
Just
Fiction
Filmmaker
All the definitions people want to put on you in terms of what kind of writer you are come with hidden meanings. If you're writing science fiction, you're writing rocket ships. If you write dystopian fiction, it's inequity where The Man must be fought.
Paolo Bacigalupi
You
Man
Science
People
Writing
Hidden
Definitions
Kind
Must
Write
Writer
Put
Come
Terms
Science Fiction
Inequity
Rocket
Ships
Where
Want
Fiction
Dystopian
Meanings
Fought
The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes.
Paolo Bacigalupi
Me
Science
Young
Adult
Category
Particularly
Terms
Science Fiction
Young Adult
Fiction
Interesting
Fantasy
When we talk about dystopias, especially in young adult fiction, a lot of them are essentially science fictional futures. They aren't necessarily tied to the traditional concept of dystopia. And so in that space, my impression is that kids love reading about weird, wild, adventurous places, and dystopia fits that bill.
Paolo Bacigalupi
Love
Science
Space
Reading
Young
Wild
Kids
Futures
About
Adult
Weird
Adventurous
Concept
Talk
Tied
Traditional
Lot
Fits
Impression
Essentially
Young Adult
Fiction
Fictional
Places
Dystopia
Them
Bill
Necessarily
I don't put a very clear label on my work. If anything, I write science fiction - looking at a moment now, in the present, and then extrapolating outward to think about what the future might look like if this particular trend goes on, or if this particular trend is the most dominant. That's a science fictional tool.
Paolo Bacigalupi
Work
Future
Science
Trend
Looking
Think
Tool
About
Write
Put
Clear
Outward
Particular
Like
Look
Most
Science Fiction
Label
Dominant
Very
Goes
Fiction
Anything
Fictional
Might
Then
Moment
Now
Present
Sometimes when we label something dystopian fiction, I feel like we're trying very hard not to use the words 'science fiction,' because science fiction has those horrible connotations of rocket ships and bodacious babes.
Paolo Bacigalupi
Science
Words
Sometimes
Babes
Those
Horrible
Something
Feel
Like
Because
Science Fiction
Rocket
Label
Ships
Very
Trying
Fiction
Dystopian
Use
Hard
Connotations
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