To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.
Science fiction still is an idea genre.
The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.
I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college. However, my adult books are all science fiction, which has some similarities to YA.
I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything.
What I perceive in science fiction is that it's more about how everything looks than what's going on, which I think is just difficult if you're an action character. I think they are about character, not about what it looks like.
I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects on human society.
So research is a terribly imperfect science, and you learn an awful lot more after you've published a book, because people keep writing to you and saying, 'Oh, gosh, I was related to such and such a character and I have a letter in my possession.'
What if I told you every single person in America - every single person on Earth - is African? With a small scrape of cells from the inside of anyone's cheek, the science of genetics can even prove it.
The thing that got me started on the science that I've been building now for about 20 years or so was the question of okay, if mathematical equations can't make progress in understanding complex phenomena in the natural world, how might we make progr...
When I die, I'm gonna leave my body to science fiction.
Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!
I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.
It's actually very beautiful when you can't conceive on your own, you can actually go to the doctors and with science you can create a child.
I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.
The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.
Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
And I thought I would just share with you what science says today about silicone breast implants. If you have them, you're healthier than if you don't. In fact, there's no science that shows that silicone breast implants are detrimental and, in fact,...
Throwing more science at things isn't always the answer.
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness.
