Fiction Quotes by Robert J. Sawyer

Science fiction has always used metaphors and disguises, talking about alien civilizations or the future.

— Robert J. Sawyer

Sci-fi is just as much about social science as technology.

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Science fiction's power, if it has any, is that it gives us reasonable extrapolations, not wild and woolly stuff.

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A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic.

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The general public still thinks that science fiction has nothing to do with their day-to-day lives.

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I really strived to give equal weight to the two halves of my genre's name: science and fiction.

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The great thing about science fiction is that it transcends national boundaries.

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Print science fiction writers often do consulting for government bodies.

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Many science-fiction writers, such as Gregory Benford, are working scientists. Many others, such as Joe Haldeman, have advanced degrees in science. Others,…

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Science fiction is about things that plausibly might happen. Grounding my work in the real world helps make that clear.

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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…

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A lot of people forget that the origin of science fiction in the U.S. was in the post-First World War period when…

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Traditionally, the science fiction reader has been the 16- to 24-year-old male, especially the male with an interest in technology.

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Science fiction is the WikiLeaks of science, getting word to the public about what cutting-edge research really means.

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I think there's always been, to some degree, a misunderstanding about what science fiction is all about, in that it has been…

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One of the things that science fiction gets to do is thought experiments about the human condition that would be impractical or…

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Hard science fiction, which is what I write, often is rightly criticized for having either negligible or unbelievable characterization, but the science…

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Social progress is a big thing for me. Although science fiction is traditionally concerned with the hard sciences, which is chemistry, physics,…

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Bradbury was the one guy who was published in places like the 'Saturday Evening Post.' He was the guy who brought science…

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Science fiction has always been a means for political comment. H.G. Wells' 'The War of the Worlds' wasn't about a Martian invasion…

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You can't be a 21st-century science fiction writer writing about Mars without doing tips of the hat to Edgar Rice Burroughs, to…

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Regrettably, with '2001' having a title that had a year in it, science fiction essentially set itself up in the public's imagination…

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There were four major 20th-century science fiction writers: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein and Ray Bradbury. Of those four,…

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I'm a fiction writer, and fiction is telling the lives of unreal people. But the only way you can learn to do…

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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…

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Science fiction should not be dismissed as escapism. It is a profound vehicle for talking about social and political issues.

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The traditional route to success in science fiction is by making a name for yourself in short fiction, so people who read…

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One of the standard story-generating engines for science fiction is to take something we normally think of as metaphoric and treat it…

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Science fiction has never been about the future; it's always been about the present day whether it's Victorian England that Wells was…

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My personal mission statement is to combine the intimately human and the grandly cosmic. I like to think that science fiction works…

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Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you.

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Science fiction is about extrapolation, looking back through history, spotting a trend, and predicting where it will go.

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