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Being born at the tag-end of the baby boom, I was destined (or doomed, depending on how you look at it) to fall in love with sci-fi. It was one of my first literary loves, as a matter of fact.

— Rick Yancey

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I've loved sci-fi and speculative fiction since I was a kid. It was inevitable I'd try my hand at it at some point.

— Rick Yancey

I'm really into sci-fi. I always have been. In addition to that, I've always had a tremendous fascination with the lure of the Apocalypse or Judgment Day or the Mayan calendar, etc., etc.

— Bryce Dallas Howard

Well, I grew up in the '80s, which was a really massive time for sci-fi.

— Jemaine Clement

'Jurassic Park' and 'Star Wars' shoved me into loving sci-fi and film in general when I was a barely coherent 3-year-old. And 'Lord of the Rings' took me to another planet entirely. Before that series, I knew I loved writing, but after, I knew that I had to write.

— Victoria Aveyard

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

— Terry Pratchett

Really, if I'm honest, sci-fi is where my sensibility instinctively goes - I'm a big comic-book fan.

— Seth Rogen

I was in love with the idea of love, so I created elaborate fictions for my relationships - fictions that allowed me to believe that what any given paramour and I shared looked a lot like love.

— Roxane Gay

Yeah I loved, as a kid growing up, I loved science-fiction.

— Jeff Bridges

A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.

— J. Michael Straczynski

✗Opposing Perspectives

I'm not a sci-fi lover; I wasn't from the start. So perhaps I miss that passion for other worlds, other dimensions, that sort of scope and that magnitude of storytelling; that's not my thing though I meet plenty of people whose thing it definitely is.

— Paul McGann