Science fiction is the most important literature of the world because it's the history of ideas, our civilization's birth, and it's central to everything we've done.

Let us think the unthinkable, do the undoable, and prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

Science fiction is a way of thinking. It is a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects.

It is changing, continuing, and inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today. Science fiction may seem trivial to blind critics and philosophers of today but in its essence, it is needed for our own salvation.

I bet on science as helping us. I have yet to see how it endangers us fundamentally. Science has given us more lives than it has taken; we must remember that.

There's no real objection to escapism. We all want to escape occasionally. Science fiction is often very far from escapism but it's a fiction that does concern itself with real issues: the origin of man; our future.Science fiction is very much concerned with real issues, reality.

Science fiction is the telescope that looks into the future. Through science fiction literature and films, we are able to address technological change, existential risks, and cultural crises that may…

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