Isaac Asimov Fiction Quotations

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.

Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us.

[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings.

God, how that stings! I've spent a lifetime loving science fiction and now I find that you must expect nothing of something that's just science fiction.

Arthur Clarke says that I am first in science and second in science fiction in accordance with an agreement we have made. I say he is first in science fiction and second in science.

That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is.

Today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact.