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

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

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

If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want.

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.

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.

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