Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics.
Of the two I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.
I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time since I was 11 or 12 I think so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books.
I had never seen much of Star Trek or any other science fiction before I was cast. But Seven's wonderful.
I dig science fiction though it was never really my thing.
With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them whoever they may be.
But Roy Rockwood it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that head-on.
Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases.
There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.
I'm not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and Indians they can act out Will and the Robot.
I'm mostly a novelist these days but I have written short stories in Fantasy Science Fiction and horror.
I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.
It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.
People who love science fiction really do love sex.
Beyond that I seem to be compelled to write science fiction rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature both fiction and nonfiction.
Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.
When I started in the business there was a thing called adult fantasy but nobody quite knew what it was and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into.
I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.
Oh I'm nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading and I'm nerdy about board games. My favorite board game is a board game I'm working on right now. It's a game of Napoleonic era naval warfare and it's going to be fun.
I love science fiction.
I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.
Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.
I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.