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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.
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It's possible that there is a guiding intelligence in our universe. I don't see a lot of personal evidence for an interventionist-on-an-individual-basis-deity. I have friends who very much do believe in that. But I don't.
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The single best thing about Mars is the reduced gravity. It's 38 percent of Earth's gravity - about one third. Almost never have you seen that portrayed in film or television. Mars is just portrayed as a place that's got reddish sand but is otherwise pretty much identical to the Mojave Desert, and that's not the case.
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I'm a very skeptical guy: my willing suspension of disbelief doesn't go very far when I'm reading other people's SF, and it goes even less far when I'm writing my own.
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Science fiction has always been a means for political comment. H.G. Wells' 'The War of the Worlds' wasn't about a Martian invasion - it was a critique of British colonialism, and... 'The Time Machine' is really an indictment of the British class system.
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A writer needs to write, period. He or she can't wait for the muse, shouldn't need peace and quiet, and isn't entitled to perfect conditions or the perfect spot.
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I've long said that if Canada has a role on the world stage, it's principally as a role model, a demonstration that people of all types can get together and live in peace and harmony, which is something we really do most of the time here.
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Our job is not to predict the future. Rather, it's to suggest all the possible futures - so that society can make informed decisions about where we want to go.
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The standard model of particle physics says that the universe consists of a very small number of particles, 12, and a very small number of forces, four. If we're correct about those 12 particles and those four forces and understand how they interact, properly, we have the recipe for baking up a universe.
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A short story is the shortest distance between two points; a novel is the scenic route.
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Everything is cross-platform now. That's part of the reality that we live in - a multifaceted, multimedia world - and I'm delighted to be a part of that.
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The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out about.
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Print science fiction writers often do consulting for government bodies.
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George Orwell's science-fiction classic 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' wasn't a failure because the future it predicted failed to come to pass. Rather, it was a resounding success because it helped us prevent that future.
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Science fiction is the WikiLeaks of science, getting word to the public about what cutting-edge research really means.
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The great thing about science fiction is that it transcends national boundaries.
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We're wired somehow to want to be part of something bigger. And we quest to understand what our role is.
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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.
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I would love to write more about my hardboiled gumshoe on Mars, Alex Lomax.
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Science fiction's power, if it has any, is that it gives us reasonable extrapolations, not wild and woolly stuff.
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People are looking for a simplicity in their fictional worlds where good and evil are clearly delineated, that you can't find in the real world, and that provides an enormous comfort - and that, I think, has an awful lot to do with the reason fantasy is so popular.
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Regrettably, with '2001' having a title that had a year in it, science fiction essentially set itself up in the public's imagination as saying, 'Here's what you get if you wait to that year.' Well, we all waited till that year, and we didn't get anything at all like that.
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Science fiction has never been about the future; it's always been about the present day whether it's Victorian England that Wells was writing about or the post-9/11 era that I'm writing about.
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I think there's always been, to some degree, a misunderstanding about what science fiction is all about, in that it has been judged by the general public as being literature of prediction, and it isn't.
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Bradbury was the one guy who was published in places like the 'Saturday Evening Post.' He was the guy who brought science fiction to the masses. If he hadn't existed, science fiction would have been a well-kept secret in literature instead of a widely consumed phenomenon.
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You have to have confidence in where you're going. Don't live and die by the fans' tweets.
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Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you.
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I frankly couldn't imagine being a series mystery-fiction writer, churning out book after book about the same viewpoint character.
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One gets a bit picky after having the success of something like 'FlashForward!'
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Science fiction is about extrapolation, looking back through history, spotting a trend, and predicting where it will go.
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