It is a search for a mythical CO2 sink to explain an immeasurable CO2 lifetime to fit a hypothetical CO2 computer model that purports to show that an….
Reality is in the business of killing off fiction..
Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic..
One of the many things that surprised me about Wool is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers..
The best readers come to fiction to be free of ... all that isn't fiction..
Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define it..
I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures,….
I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other ….
She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth..
Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks..
Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential….
When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult f….
I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction..
Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels..
Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create life there.….
Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing..
All novels are experimental..
We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings..
All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction..
My concern is how we live fictions, how fictions have real effects, become facts in that sense, and how our experience of the world changes depending….
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary..