Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything.

I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.

In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.

SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions.

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.

I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.

Today's robots are very primitive, capable of understanding only a few simple instructions such as 'go left', 'go right', and 'build car'.