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.

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

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.

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

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.

I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.