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* “By ‘scientifiction’ I mean the Jules Verne, H.G. Wells and Edgar Allan Poe type of story — a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision.” — Hugo Gernsback, in “Amazing Stories” (April 1926) | * “By ‘scientifiction’ I mean the Jules Verne, H.G. Wells and Edgar Allan Poe type of story — a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision.” — Hugo Gernsback, in “Amazing Stories” (April 1926) | ||
* “Science Fiction is a branch of fantasy identifiable by the fact | * “Science Fiction is a branch of fantasy identifiable by the fact that it eases the ‘willing suspension of disbelief’ on the part of its readers by utilizing an atmosphere of scientific credibility for its imaginative speculations in physical science, space, time, social science, and philosophy.” — Sam Moskowitz, in “Explorers of the Infinite” (1963) | ||
that it eases the ‘willing suspension of disbelief’ on the part of its readers by utilizing an atmosphere of scientific credibility for its imaginative speculations in physical science, space, time, social science, and philosophy.” — Sam Moskowitz, in “Explorers of the Infinite” (1963) | |||
* “We might try to define science fiction in this broader sense as fiction based upon scientific or pseudo-scientific assumptions (space-travel, robots, telepathy, earthly immortality, and so forth) or laid in any patently unreal though non-supernatural setting (the future, or another world, and so forth).” — L. Sprague de Camp, in “Science Fiction Handbook” (1953) | * “We might try to define science fiction in this broader sense as fiction based upon scientific or pseudo-scientific assumptions (space-travel, robots, telepathy, earthly immortality, and so forth) or laid in any patently unreal though non-supernatural setting (the future, or another world, and so forth).” — L. Sprague de Camp, in “Science Fiction Handbook” (1953) | ||
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* “Science fiction is that branch of literature wthat deals with human responses to changes in the level of science and technology.” — Isaac Asimov, in “Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine” (Mar-Apr 1978) | * “Science fiction is that branch of literature wthat deals with human responses to changes in the level of science and technology.” — Isaac Asimov, in “Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine” (Mar-Apr 1978) | ||
* “Science fiction is that class of prose narrative wtreating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but which is hypothesized on the basis of some innovation in science or technology, or pseudo-science or pseudo-technology, whether human or extraterrestrial | * “Science fiction is that class of prose narrative wtreating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but which is hypothesized on the basis of some innovation in science or technology, or pseudo-science or pseudo-technology, whether human or extraterrestrial in origin.” — Kingsley Amis, in “New Maps of Hell” (1961) | ||
in origin.” — Kingsley Amis, in “New Maps of Hell” (1961) | |||
* “Science fiction is the search for a definition of man and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused state of knowledge (science), and is cast in the Gothic or post-Gothic mould.” — Brian W. Aldiss, in “Billion Year Spree” (1973) | * “Science fiction is the search for a definition of man and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused state of knowledge (science), and is cast in the Gothic or post-Gothic mould.” — Brian W. Aldiss, in “Billion Year Spree” (1973) | ||