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I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like that's because technology has caught up with us.
As a fellow science fiction author, Heinlein largely raised me, and I resent it when some folks lazily dismiss Heinlein as a 'right winger' or even 'fascist.'
Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.
I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.
I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way.
I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.
I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.
In general, I write for ages 12 and up - although I've received emails from readers between the ages of seven and seventy. My books are science fiction.
The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.
A lot of the things you see in science fiction revolve around black holes because black holes are strong enough to rip the fabric of space and time.
I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.
In science fiction, we're always searching for new frontiers. We're drawn to the unknown.
Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.
Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.
Traditionally, the science fiction reader has been the 16- to 24-year-old male, especially the male with an interest in technology.
My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
We can celebrate how far we've come from our sexist past when women and men are equally represented in the pages of science fiction anthologies.
I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader. That's science fiction; it isn't going to happen.
Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.
Around 1930, a small new phenomenon arose in Depression-ridden America, spawned out of the letter columns in science fiction magazines: fandom.
In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon 5' universe, they're in the bottom third.
My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.
Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract.
I am playing in a playground that's already been played in. I am always aware that a lot of the furniture in science fiction is second hand.
Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.
Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.
I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.
It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.
You cannot create new science unless you realise where the old science leaves off and new science begins, and science fiction forces us to confront this.
I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
One of the standard story-generating engines for science fiction is to take something we normally think of as metaphoric and treat it as if it were literal.
Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.
As a literature of change driven by technology, science fiction presents religion to a part of the reading public that probably seldom goes to church.
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.
A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.
You cannot create new science unless you realize where the old science leaves off and new science begins, and science fiction forces us to confront this.
Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was fine, but didn't quite work for me.
I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.
My personal mission statement is to combine the intimately human and the grandly cosmic. I like to think that science fiction works on these two different scales.
Seeing the space future through science fiction can be difficult. Much science fiction of the early era, the 1950s through the '70s, took an expansionist view.
I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.
One of the things that science fiction gets to do is thought experiments about the human condition that would be impractical or unethical to conduct in real life.
Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.
In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.
And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.
Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great).
No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.