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Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.
Science fiction is about things that plausibly might happen. Grounding my work in the real world helps make that clear.
I'm terribly particular about what I read: lush writing, secondary world or seriously far-out science fiction, strong worldbuilding, dynamic characters. I need to have it all for it to work for me.
Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff.