![]() You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want." "In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it." "It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations." "My first thought was always a cigarette. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them." "I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time." "I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport." "I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction." "If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette." "I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. ![]() ![]() ![]() "A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas." "A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction." "I did that for 40 years or more. ![]()
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