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There’s a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.
I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it.
In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
There’s no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.
I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.
Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I’ve had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam… and I’m not happy to be right in all of those cases.
Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.
But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I’ll bet you’ll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.
One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it.