We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Science fiction has always had a dark side. There has been a touch of the irrational and absurd in the genre from the very beginning.
There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.
One of the many things that surprised me about 'Wool' is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers.
I was an undergrad math major and a grad student in computer science. I'm hugely introverted, not atypical of math majors.
But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress.
There's a science fiction project we really want to make, but it's very expensive. Hopefully it will happen.
I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.
I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a music-nerd.
I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the wealth that comes from science.
It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.
I never would have guessed I would be making science fiction and horror films.
I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.
While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me.
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.
I studied political science and international relations, so I never considered myself an artist.
Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.
I happen to be one of those rare actors that actually loves very intelligent and well-acted science fiction.
What got my interested in science fiction was actually the American space program.
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.
