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Science Fiction 

see also Fantasy
  1. Science Fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.
    Brian Aldiss 1925–  English science fiction writer: introduction to Penguin Science Fiction (1962)
  2. Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
    Isaac Asimov 1920–92 Russian-born biochemist and science fiction writer: in Natural History April 1975
  3. I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
    Ray Bradbury 1920–2012 American science fiction writer: in Independent 16 July 1992
  4. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
    Arthur C. Clarke 1917–2008 English science fiction writer: Profiles of the Future (1962) ch. 2
  5. The only genuine consciousness-expanding drug.
    on science fiction
    Arthur C. Clarke 1917–2008 English science fiction writer: letter claiming coinage in New Scientist 2 April 1994