The British audience was very important to me. I have always looked away from American to non-American audiences and so this was important.

Originality is a concept possible only to a limited viewpoint.

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

The British audience was very important to me. I have always looked away from American to non-American audiences and so this was important.

I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way.

Wherever you go in the galaxy, you can find a food business, a house-building business, a war business, a peace business, a governing business, and so forth. And, of course, a God business, which is called 'religion,' and which is a particularly reprehensible line of endeavor.

Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.