I have to have music as a soundtrack to writing fiction. I listen to it at other times, too, but it helps me write.
Fiction is always really a labor.
The Golden Age of science fiction is thirteen.
There’s only one subject for fiction or poetry or even a joke: how it is. In all the arts, the payoff is always the same: recognition. If it works, you say that’s real, that’s truth, that’s life, that’s the way things are. ‘There it is. ’
Science fiction went through a period that was mostly object-oriented or inventions for distant galaxies. But when we cracked the genetic DNA code, opened the big Pandora's box, and it really did become possible to produce chimeras, my ears shot up.
I have been induced to adopt this course by a desire that my readers should be taught to think as well as to experiment, and thus be qualified at an early part of their study to discriminate between the true and the false, and acquire the facts of the science without being mystified by its fictions.
I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.
I've always been drawn to historical fiction.
Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction.
I must say that, on the whole, I prefer fiction to poetry.
The day I was born songs were on records, phones were tied down, computers needed rooms and the web was fiction. Change the world. You can.
That's one of the reasons I take a lot of consolation in fiction. You have years to work on it. I think that allows you to reach for the best part of your reader instead of a lot of the internet stuff, in which you're kind of reaching for the worst or the most shallow part of your reader.
Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.
History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist. These are scientists who are making the future in their laboratories.
What is freedom? What is slavery? Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say No, in so far as laws are natural, economic, and social laws, not authoritatively imposed but inherent in things, in relations, in situations, the natural development of which is expressed by those laws. We say Yes if they are political and juridical laws, imposed by men upon men: whether violently by the right of force; whether by deceit and hypocrisy - in the name of religion or any doctrine whatever; or finally, by dint of the fiction, the democratic falsehood called universal suffrage.
I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.
I don't read Science Fiction.
In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from Shakespeare to science fiction. . . sometimes a book a day.
In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition,—and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument.