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.

In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.

Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's lives. And you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad.

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

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

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.

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.