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

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

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.

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

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.

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.