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" I've had many of my books optioned. "
Robert J. Sawyer
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" Regrettably, with '2001' having a title that had a year in it, science fiction essentially set itself up in the public's imagination as saying, 'Here's what you get if you wait to that year.' Well, we all waited till that year, and we didn't get anything at all like that. "
Robert J. Sawyer
You
Wait
Saying
" 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
" I'm a rationalist. And I can see no evidence for a benevolent and interventionist creator. "
Robert J. Sawyer
I Can
See
Evidence
" 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
" 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
" Science fiction should not be dismissed as escapism. It is a profound vehicle for talking about social and political issues. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Political
Talking
Science
" The fact we exist merely means we exist. That's all it means. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Merely
Exist
Fact
" Once we no longer have the intellectual upper hand, then we quite literally, by definition, cannot outwit our successors. So unless we are absolutely sure that the machines we are building right now are not going to eventually become our new robot overlords, prudence is called for. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Building
Intellectual
New
" 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
" When the state was going to tell you what your future would be, science fiction was irrelevant. "
Robert J. Sawyer
You
Science Fiction
Future
" Print science fiction writers often do consulting for government bodies. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Government
Science Fiction
Science
" 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
" A short story is the shortest distance between two points; a novel is the scenic route. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Two
Distance
Route
" I think most people are indifferent in their evaluation of what is good or bad. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Evaluation
Good
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 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
" 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
" I am very pro-science. "
Robert J. Sawyer
I Am
Am
Very
" Many science-fiction writers, such as Gregory Benford, are working scientists. Many others, such as Joe Haldeman, have advanced degrees in science. Others, like me, have backgrounds in science and technology journalism. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Technology
Journalism
Me
" Science fiction has always used metaphors and disguises, talking about alien civilizations or the future. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Talking
Always
Future
" 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
" Real people are complex, contradictory, and have their own motivations - they can't just be mouthpieces for the writers' point of view. "
Robert J. Sawyer
People
View
Real
" 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. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Her
Writing
Someone
" A lot of people forget that the origin of science fiction in the U.S. was in the post-First World War period when there was a real interest to get people into technical careers. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Forget
People
World
" 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. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Stars
White
House
" Science fiction is about things that plausibly might happen. Grounding my work in the real world helps make that clear. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Work
Real
Happen
" 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
" A short story is one idea; a novel is a whole soup of them. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Idea
Them
Whole
" Science fiction is about extrapolation, looking back through history, spotting a trend, and predicting where it will go. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Looking
Science
Looking Back
" One gets a bit picky after having the success of something like 'FlashForward!' "
Robert J. Sawyer
Something
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Success