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

Robert J. Sawyer

Science Fiction

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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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" I really strived to give equal weight to the two halves of my genre's name: science and fiction. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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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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" The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is the world's greatest pure physics thinktank, and it's located here in Canada, in Waterloo, Ont. "

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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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" Science fiction is the WikiLeaks of science, getting word to the public about what cutting-edge research really means. "

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" 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. "

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" Everything that I can do to ground the story in reality helps make it harder for people to be dismissive of it. "

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

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" My personal mission statement is to combine the intimately human and the grandly cosmic. I like to think that science fiction works on these two different scales. "

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" When I started publishing - my first novel came out in 1990 - there were no options for publishing science fiction in Canada. There were no small presses, and the large presses simply would not touch it at all. "

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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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" 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. "

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

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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. "

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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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" Real people are complex, contradictory, and have their own motivations - they can't just be mouthpieces for the writers' point of view. "

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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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