Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
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"How Easy to See the Future", Natural History magazine (April 1975); later published in Asimov on Science Fiction (1981).Isaac Asimov
I think the new science fiction, which other people apart from myself are now beginning to write, is introverted, possibly pessimistic rather than optimistic, much less certain of its own territory. There's a tremendous confidence that radiates through all modern American science fiction of the period 1930 to 1960; the certainty that science and technology can solve all problems. This is not the dominant form of science fiction now. I think science fiction is becoming something much more speculative, much less convinced about the magic of science and the moral authority of science. There's far more caution on the part of the new writers than there was.
J. G. Ballard
After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.
Terry Eagleton
Science Fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.
Philip Kindred - a.k.a. PKD Dick
The technophiles are taking us all on an utterly reckless ride into the unknown. Many people understand something of what technological progress is doing to us yet take a passive attitude toward it because they think it is inevitable. But we (FC) don't think it is inevitable. We think it can be stopped, and we will give here some indications of how to go about stopping it.
Theodore Kaczynski
As China is the one nation with the size, population, ideology and power to contest the United States for hegemony in Asia, is war inevitable? Answer: No more inevitable than was war between Germany and Great Britain in 1914.
Pat Buchanan
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