Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work e….
As I keep saying, fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was..
Mayor Daley has no honor and his word has no value. The sneaky way he did this shows that he knows it was wrong. We're not going to allow the mayor t….
I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense….
Everyone who works in the domain of fiction is a bit crazy. The problem is to render this craziness interesting..
I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published..
I think you can get away with being a bit more political in science fiction..
I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it..
As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not..
One of the things that I love so much about fantasy and science fiction is that the weirdness that it creates is always at its best completely its ow….
I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing..
If I couldn't be a fiction writer, I would be a roller coaster designer for theme parks.
To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times..
You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills..
I've called science fiction 'reality ahead of schedule'.
At least I hope - that the fiction I've written so far has flaws but has mostly been successful..
Purdom has created a major body of work. Thoughtful, humane, intelligent, extrapolative, involving, his stories are exactly the sort of thing our gen….
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories..
Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they could compete wit….
In other words, fiction is payback for those who have wronged you..
Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future..