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" My mother is an American. "

Robert J. Sawyer

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" Hard science fiction, which is what I write, often is rightly criticized for having either negligible or unbelievable characterization, but the science I've actually studied most post-secondarily is psychology, and characterization is the art of dramatizing psychological principles. "

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" I'm a member of the Writers Guild of America and the Writers Guild of Canada. "

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" 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. "

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" Sci-fi is just as much about social science as technology. "

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" When you're changing centuries, people get curious about the future. "

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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. "

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" Psychopathy might lurk behind the mask of sanity. "

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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. "

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" When the state was going to tell you what your future would be, science fiction was irrelevant. "

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Science Fiction

" One gets a bit picky after having the success of something like 'FlashForward!' "

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" 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. "

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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. "

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" Science fiction's power, if it has any, is that it gives us reasonable extrapolations, not wild and woolly stuff. "

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" Science fiction is about extrapolation, looking back through history, spotting a trend, and predicting where it will go. "

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" Print science fiction writers often do consulting for government bodies. "

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Science Fiction

" The great thing about science fiction is that it transcends national boundaries. "

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Science Fiction

" I think most people are indifferent in their evaluation of what is good or bad. "

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" You have to have confidence in where you're going. Don't live and die by the fans' tweets. "

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" 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. "

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" Science fiction should not be dismissed as escapism. It is a profound vehicle for talking about social and political issues. "

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" 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

" 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. "

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" 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

" 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. "

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" The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out about. "

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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. "

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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. "

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" I've had many of my books optioned. "

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" 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. "

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