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" The fact we exist merely means we exist. That's all it means. "

Robert J. Sawyer

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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. "

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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. "

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" There were four major 20th-century science fiction writers: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein and Ray Bradbury. Of those four, the first three were all published principally in science-fiction magazines. They were preaching to the converted. "

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" 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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" 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. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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" Science fiction is about things that plausibly might happen. Grounding my work in the real world helps make that clear. "

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" If you look at the United States, most of the country is pretty much uninhabited. "

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" When I first started, my novels were set in the far future. "

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

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" 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. "

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" I'm often characterized as an optimistic writer, and certainly my 'Neanderthal Parallax' and 'WWW' trilogies shade toward the utopian. I like to think that's not simple naivete, but rather a reasonable approach. "

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" Psychopathy might lurk behind the mask of sanity. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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