I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction..

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 ta….

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

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….

The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction..

Science fiction is the very literature of change..

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..

You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it..

What were we doing here? Traveling hundreds or thousands of light-years, to break our hearts?.

I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time..

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

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 v….

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….

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 Bra….

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..

That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change. Science fiction is the ….

My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated..

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

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

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport..

They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind..