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" 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
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" Sci-fi is just as much about social science as technology. "
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" Psychopathy might lurk behind the mask of sanity. "
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" I am very pro-science. "
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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. "
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You
" I really strived to give equal weight to the two halves of my genre's name: science and fiction. "
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Equal
" The great thing about science fiction is that it transcends national boundaries. "
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" Whether it's created in a lab, written by a programmer, or lands on the White House lawn as a visitor from the stars, if it acts like a human being, it is a human being. "
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Stars
White
House
" 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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" George Orwell's science-fiction classic 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' wasn't a failure because the future it predicted failed to come to pass. Rather, it was a resounding success because it helped us prevent that future. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Us
Success
Classic
" It's possible that there is a guiding intelligence in our universe. I don't see a lot of personal evidence for an interventionist-on-an-individual-basis-deity. I have friends who very much do believe in that. But I don't. "
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Intelligence
Universe
" We're wired somehow to want to be part of something bigger. And we quest to understand what our role is. "
Robert J. Sawyer
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Role
Quest
" The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is the world's greatest pure physics thinktank, and it's located here in Canada, in Waterloo, Ont. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Here
Pure
World
" 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
" 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
" Bradbury was the one guy who was published in places like the 'Saturday Evening Post.' He was the guy who brought science fiction to the masses. If he hadn't existed, science fiction would have been a well-kept secret in literature instead of a widely consumed phenomenon. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Evening
Literature
Saturday
" If you look at the United States, most of the country is pretty much uninhabited. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Most
You
United
" I started wondering why it is that people line up behind charismatic leaders. It's easy to understand the emergence of a figure who's narcissistic and compelling. But why people follow this person mindlessly - that was the hard question to me. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Me
Understand
Person
" I think most people are indifferent in their evaluation of what is good or bad. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Evaluation
Good
People
" Science fiction has always used metaphors and disguises, talking about alien civilizations or the future. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Talking
Always
Future
" One of the things that science fiction gets to do is thought experiments about the human condition that would be impractical or unethical to conduct in real life. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Thought
Real
Life
" The general public still thinks that science fiction has nothing to do with their day-to-day lives. "
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Still
Nothing
Science
" 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. "
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Reason
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" 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
" 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
" 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
You
Hat
Imagination
" When I first started, my novels were set in the far future. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Were
Started
Set
" 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. "
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Decisions
Want
Society
" I'm a rationalist. And I can see no evidence for a benevolent and interventionist creator. "
Robert J. Sawyer
I Can
See
Evidence
" An agnostic is someone who believes the nature of the Divine is unknowable... and in that sense, I'm willing to subscribe to being an agnostic. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Sense
Nature
Divine