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My old English buddy, John Ra...

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.

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When I sit down to the feast ...

When I sit down to the feast of life ... I'm so busy planning on how to pick up the check, and wondering what the other people think of me for paying it, and wondering if I have enough money in my pocket to pay the bill, that I don't get around to eating.

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A good science fiction story ...

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

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That's what life is, just one...

That's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.

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For someone to be taken serio...

For someone to be taken seriously it was valuable to have the appearance of someone who deserved to be taken seriously.

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The future depicted in a good...

The future depicted in a good SF story ought to be in fact possible, or at least plausible. That means that the writer should be able to convince the reader (and himself) that the wonders he is describing really can come true... and that gets tricky when you take a good, hard look at the world around you.

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On this day I want to tell yo...

On this day I want to tell you about, which will be about a thousand years from now, there were a boy, a girl and a love story.

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You don't think progress goes...

You don't think progress goes in a straight line, do you? Do you recognize that it is an ascending, accelerating, maybe even exponential curve? It takes hell's own time to get started, but when it goes it goes like a bomb.

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Science fiction is the very l...

Science fiction is the very literature of change.

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It's clear that science and s...

It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

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You can't really predict the ...

You can't really predict the future. All you can do is invent it.

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People ask me how I do resear...

People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.

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I don't think the scientific ...

I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.

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I did that for 40 years or mo...

I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette.

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Stories where the author has ...

Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific things about rocketry and so on, really suck.

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You look at the world around ...

You look at the world around you, and you take it apart into all its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens.

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The big new development in my...

The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring.

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A large fraction of the most ...

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.

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If you don't care about scien...

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. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want.

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Stephen Hawking said he spent...

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).

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