Astounding Science Fiction

Famous quotes containing the words astounding, science and/or fiction:

    An astounding crate full of air.
    Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)

    The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation’s pulse, you can’t be sure that the nation hasn’t just run up a flight of stairs.
    —E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)

    If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.
    William Gass (b. 1924)