Science fiction is the very literature of change.

The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring.

On this day I want to tell you about, which will be about a thousand years from now, there were a boy, a girl and a love story.

The future depicted in a good SF story ought to be in fact possible, or at least plausible. That means that the writer should be able to convince the reader (and himself) that the wonders he is describing really can come true... and that gets tricky when you take a good, hard look at the world around you.

I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.

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?