Science fiction should not be dismissed as escapism. It is a profound vehicle for talking about social and political issues. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Print science fiction writers often do consulting for government bodies. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
When the state was going to tell you what your future would be, science fiction was irrelevant. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
The great thing about science fiction is that it transcends national boundaries. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Science fiction is about extrapolation, looking back through history, spotting a trend, and predicting where it will go. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Science fiction is about things that plausibly might happen. Grounding my work in the real world helps make that clear. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Science fiction has always used metaphors and disguises, talking about alien civilizations or the future. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
The general public still thinks that science fiction has nothing to do with their day-to-day lives. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Science fiction has always been a means for political comment. H.G. Wells' 'The War of the Worlds' wasn't about a Martian invasion… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
There's always been a quality to being a science-fiction reader. Usually, you're the only one in your class, or there are only… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
One of the things that science fiction gets to do is thought experiments about the human condition that would be impractical or… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
My personal mission statement is to combine the intimately human and the grandly cosmic. I like to think that science fiction works… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Science fiction has never been about the future; it's always been about the present day whether it's Victorian England that Wells was… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
When I started publishing - my first novel came out in 1990 - there were no options for publishing science fiction in… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Regrettably, with '2001' having a title that had a year in it, science fiction essentially set itself up in the public's imagination… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
One of the standard story-generating engines for science fiction is to take something we normally think of as metaphoric and treat it… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the WikiLeaks of science, getting word to the public about what cutting-edge research really means. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Traditionally, the science fiction reader has been the 16- to 24-year-old male, especially the male with an interest in technology. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Science fiction's power, if it has any, is that it gives us reasonable extrapolations, not wild and woolly stuff. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
There were four major 20th-century science fiction writers: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein and Ray Bradbury. Of those four,… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
The traditional route to success in science fiction is by making a name for yourself in short fiction, so people who read… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
You can't be a 21st-century science fiction writer writing about Mars without doing tips of the hat to Edgar Rice Burroughs, to… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
By serializing two novels in 'Analog,' the world's No. 1, best-selling science fiction magazine, I've had 200,000 words of fiction and three… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Many science-fiction writers, such as Gregory Benford, are working scientists. Many others, such as Joe Haldeman, have advanced degrees in science. Others,… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Social progress is a big thing for me. Although science fiction is traditionally concerned with the hard sciences, which is chemistry, physics,… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Hard science fiction, which is what I write, often is rightly criticized for having either negligible or unbelievable characterization, but the science… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I think there's always been, to some degree, a misunderstanding about what science fiction is all about, in that it has been… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Bradbury was the one guy who was published in places like the 'Saturday Evening Post.' He was the guy who brought science… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
A lot of people forget that the origin of science fiction in the U.S. was in the post-First World War period when… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share
I'm much more interested in writing about the things that engage and enrage me as an adult rather than in wallowing in childhood sorrows. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share
Our job is not to predict the future. Rather, it's to suggest all the possible futures - so that society can make informed decisions… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share
That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunchest creationist. But that it can transform… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share
“You really did uplift me. You gave me the perspective and point of view and focus I needed to become truly conscious. Without you,… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share
I'm often characterized as an optimistic writer, and certainly my 'Neanderthal Parallax' and 'WWW' trilogies shade toward the utopian. I like to think that's… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share
I started wondering why it is that people line up behind charismatic leaders. It's easy to understand the emergence of a figure who's narcissistic… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share
Real people are complex, contradictory, and have their own motivations - they can't just be mouthpieces for the writers' point of view. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share
“All right,” he said. “Since you asked, Webmind is an emergent quantum-computational system based on a stable null-sigma condensate that resists decoherence thanks to… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share
Social progress is a big thing for me. Although science fiction is traditionally concerned with the hard sciences, which is chemistry, physics, and, some… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share
Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share
I'm a member of the Writers Guild of America and the Writers Guild of Canada. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share
