You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it.

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it.

If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want.

I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette.

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

What were we doing here? Traveling hundreds or thousands of light-years, to break our hearts?