That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change. Science fiction is the very literature of change. In fact, it is the only such literature we have.

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

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

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.

They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind.

You can't really predict the future. All you can do is invent it.

My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated.