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

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.

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.

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

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

That's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.

Science fiction is the very literature of change.