I do not believe they've run out of surprises.

There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author. The term is 'idiot'.

SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

The brightest minds in our field have been trying to find a definition of science fiction for these past seventy years. The short answer is, science fiction stories are given as possible, not necessarily here and now, but somewhere, sometime.

The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum.

Never be embarrassed or ashamed by anything you choose to write.