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" I would love to write more about my hardboiled gumshoe on Mars, Alex Lomax. "
Robert J. Sawyer
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" You can't be a 21st-century science fiction writer writing about Mars without doing tips of the hat to Edgar Rice Burroughs, to Ray Bradbury, to H.G. Wells, to the guys who first put it in the public imagination that Mars was an exciting place. "
Robert J. Sawyer
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" 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
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" Writing is transmogrifying, not just for the reader but also for the author; an author becomes someone he or she isn't by living the lives of his or her characters. "
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Writing
Someone
" Science fiction is about extrapolation, looking back through history, spotting a trend, and predicting where it will go. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Looking
Science
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" Everything is cross-platform now. That's part of the reality that we live in - a multifaceted, multimedia world - and I'm delighted to be a part of that. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Reality
Live
Everything
" 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
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Quality
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" Science fiction is about things that plausibly might happen. Grounding my work in the real world helps make that clear. "
Robert J. Sawyer
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Real
Happen
" Print science fiction writers often do consulting for government bodies. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Government
Science Fiction
Science
" 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
" In the best atheist sense of the word, I feel blessed. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Feel
Sense
Atheist
" You have to have confidence in where you're going. Don't live and die by the fans' tweets. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Live
Confidence
You
" One gets a bit picky after having the success of something like 'FlashForward!' "
Robert J. Sawyer
Something
Like
Success
" When the state was going to tell you what your future would be, science fiction was irrelevant. "
Robert J. Sawyer
You
Science Fiction
Future
" 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
" A short story is one idea; a novel is a whole soup of them. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Idea
Them
Whole
" 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'm a fiction writer, and fiction is telling the lives of unreal people. But the only way you can learn to do that well is by really understanding the lives of real people. "
Robert J. Sawyer
People
You
Way
" 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
" If you look at the United States, most of the country is pretty much uninhabited. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Most
You
United
" Science fiction is the WikiLeaks of science, getting word to the public about what cutting-edge research really means. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Research
Science Fiction
Word
" Social progress is a big thing for me. Although science fiction is traditionally concerned with the hard sciences, which is chemistry, physics, and, some might argue, biology, my father was and still is a social scientist at the University of Toronto. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Science
Chemistry
Progress
" Science fiction has always used metaphors and disguises, talking about alien civilizations or the future. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Talking
Always
Future
" All the things that made us basically nasty, rapacious, competitive as a species are not necessarily hard-coded into whatever passes for the DNA of artificial intelligence. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Artificial Intelligence
Intelligence
" 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
" One of the standard story-generating engines for science fiction is to take something we normally think of as metaphoric and treat it as if it were literal. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Science
Think
Science Fiction
" 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
" 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
" 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
" I'm much more interested in writing about the things that engage and enrage me as an adult rather than in wallowing in childhood sorrows. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Me
Childhood
More
" People are looking for a simplicity in their fictional worlds where good and evil are clearly delineated, that you can't find in the real world, and that provides an enormous comfort - and that, I think, has an awful lot to do with the reason fantasy is so popular. "
Robert J. Sawyer
People
Simplicity
Good And Evil