Jack Williamson Professions : Fiction writer Born : April 29, 1908 Died : November 10, 2006 Browse All Authors Top 8 quotes by Jack Williamson We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination. Jack Williamson imagination young kids I'm a strict materialist - but the police are brutal materialists. Jack Williamson brutal strict police [Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention. Jack Williamson assumption discovery fiction "Hard" science fiction probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reconstructs the probable past. Even far-out fantasy can present a significant test of human values exposed to a new environment. Deriving its most cogent ideas from the tension between permanence and change, science fiction combines the diversions of novelty with its pertinent kind of realism. Jack Williamson mean past ideas Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination. Jack Williamson empty has-beens imagination I'm afraid Dr. Mondrick chose an unfortunate publicity device. After all, the theory of human evolution is no longer front page news. Every known detail of the origin of mankind is extremely important to such a specialist as Dr. Mondrick, but it doesn't interest the man in the street - not unless it's dramatized. Jack Williamson details important men That was quite an adventure, stopping at a different house each night, seeing new country,. Jack Williamson adventure night country I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future. Jack Williamson about future universe curiosity Similar Authors Brian Stableford fiction-writer Brian Lumley fiction-writer Brad Linaweaver fiction-writer Armin Joseph Deutsch fiction-writer Andrew Revkin fiction-writer Amy Plum fiction-writer All Authors
