I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.
The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it.
People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.
What can there be concerning outer space but ignorance?
Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is.
All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.