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" I frankly couldn't imagine being a series mystery-fiction writer, churning out book after book about the same viewpoint character. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Book
Writer
Same
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" Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Experiences
Art
You
" If you like 'The Nature of Things,' or if you like 'Quirks and Quarks' you'll certainly like Lee Smolin's writing, and 'Time Reborn' is his latest nonfiction book, and it's an absolutely compelling read. It's worth the time. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Worth
You
Book
" I am very pro-science. "
Robert J. Sawyer
I Am
Am
Very
" You fall into a black hole, and you are irretrievably gone from the universe. That finality has made it irresistible to writers. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Universe
You
Hole
" Our job is not to predict the future. Rather, it's to suggest all the possible futures - so that society can make informed decisions about where we want to go. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Decisions
Want
Society
" The only shows that Americans watch in big numbers are shows about lawyers, doctors, or cops... People don't tune in to watch scientists unless they are forensic scientists. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Lawyers
Watch
People
" I've long said that if Canada has a role on the world stage, it's principally as a role model, a demonstration that people of all types can get together and live in peace and harmony, which is something we really do most of the time here. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Live
Peace
People
" I'm a very skeptical guy: my willing suspension of disbelief doesn't go very far when I'm reading other people's SF, and it goes even less far when I'm writing my own. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Reading
People
Own
" Science fiction's power, if it has any, is that it gives us reasonable extrapolations, not wild and woolly stuff. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Us
Wild
Power
" There's always been a quality to being a science-fiction reader. Usually, you're the only one in your class, or there are only one or two in your whole town. You're always the guy who reads that strange stuff. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Strange
Quality
Always
" Science fiction has never been about the future; it's always been about the present day whether it's Victorian England that Wells was writing about or the post-9/11 era that I'm writing about. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Present
Writing
Future
" The standard model of particle physics says that the universe consists of a very small number of particles, 12, and a very small number of forces, four. If we're correct about those 12 particles and those four forces and understand how they interact, properly, we have the recipe for baking up a universe. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Physics
Universe
Small
" I'm a member of the Writers Guild of America and the Writers Guild of Canada. "
Robert J. Sawyer
America
Guild
Member
" When we have machines that are as intelligent - and then twice as intelligent - as we are, there is no reason why that relationship cannot be synergistic rather than antagonistic. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Relationship
Reason
Intelligent
" By serializing two novels in 'Analog,' the world's No. 1, best-selling science fiction magazine, I've had 200,000 words of fiction and three cover stories in that magazine. Quite an enviable record. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Two
Words
World
" In addition to psychopaths, 'Quantum Night' is also a novel about literally thoughtless people, without inner voices, thoughts in their heads. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Thoughts
Night
People
" The traditional route to success in science fiction is by making a name for yourself in short fiction, so people who read science fiction magazines will recognize your byline on a novel. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Science
People
Name
" I think there's always been, to some degree, a misunderstanding about what science fiction is all about, in that it has been judged by the general public as being literature of prediction, and it isn't. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Science
Think
Always
" What Bradbury had that most other science-fiction writers didn't have at that time was a love for beautiful language, evocative description, and haunting phrases that would stick with the reader. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Language
Time
Stick
" We absolutely do some of the best science in the world in Canada, across a broad spectrum of disciplines: quantum computing in Waterloo, paleontology in Alberta, neuroscience at the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health in Vancouver, and many more. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Health
Best
World
" I really strived to give equal weight to the two halves of my genre's name: science and fiction. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Science
Fiction
Equal
" Science fiction has always been a means for political comment. H.G. Wells' 'The War of the Worlds' wasn't about a Martian invasion - it was a critique of British colonialism, and... 'The Time Machine' is really an indictment of the British class system. "
Robert J. Sawyer
War
Class
Political
" When I first started, my novels were set in the far future. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Were
Started
Set
" The single best thing about Mars is the reduced gravity. It's 38 percent of Earth's gravity - about one third. Almost never have you seen that portrayed in film or television. Mars is just portrayed as a place that's got reddish sand but is otherwise pretty much identical to the Mojave Desert, and that's not the case. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Best
Desert
Sand
" Traditionally, the science fiction reader has been the 16- to 24-year-old male, especially the male with an interest in technology. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Science
Technology
Science Fiction
" A writer needs to write, period. He or she can't wait for the muse, shouldn't need peace and quiet, and isn't entitled to perfect conditions or the perfect spot. "
Robert J. Sawyer
She
Wait
Need
" I've had many of my books optioned. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Had
Many
Books
" The general public still thinks that science fiction has nothing to do with their day-to-day lives. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Still
Nothing
Science
" I'm a rationalist. And I can see no evidence for a benevolent and interventionist creator. "
Robert J. Sawyer
I Can
See
Evidence
" The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out about. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Heart
Research
Soul