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.

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.

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

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.

It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

People as me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.

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.