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

The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

For someone to be taken seriously it was valuable to have the appearance of someone who deserved to be taken seriously.

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

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.

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

What were we doing here? Traveling hundreds or thousands of light-years, to break our hearts?