Robert J. Sawyer

I would love to write more about my hardboiled gumshoe on Mars, Alex Lomax.

— Robert J. Sawyer

No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?

— Robert J. Sawyer

I'm much more interested in writing about the things that engage and enrage me as an adult rather than in wallowing in…

— Robert J. Sawyer

In addition to psychopaths, 'Quantum Night' is also a novel about literally thoughtless people, without inner voices, thoughts in their heads.

— Robert J. Sawyer

It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.

— Robert J. Sawyer

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

— Robert J. Sawyer

You have to have confidence in where you're going. Don't live and die by the fans' tweets.

— Robert J. Sawyer

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

— Robert J. Sawyer

That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunchest creationist. But that it…

— Robert J. Sawyer

When we have machines that are as intelligent - and then twice as intelligent - as we are, there is no reason…

— Robert J. Sawyer

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

Writing is transmogrifying, not just for the reader but also for the author; an author becomes someone he or she isn't by…

— Robert J. Sawyer

Once we no longer have the intellectual upper hand, then we quite literally, by definition, cannot outwit our successors. So unless we…

— Robert J. Sawyer

Everything is cross-platform now. That's part of the reality that we live in - a multifaceted, multimedia world - and I'm delighted…

— Robert J. Sawyer

We absolutely do some of the best science in the world in Canada, across a broad spectrum of disciplines: quantum computing in…

— Robert J. Sawyer

The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is the world's greatest pure physics thinktank, and it's located here in Canada, in Waterloo, Ont.

— Robert J. Sawyer

I'm a very skeptical guy: my willing suspension of disbelief doesn't go very far when I'm reading other people's SF, and it…

— Robert J. Sawyer

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

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

People are looking for a simplicity in their fictional worlds where good and evil are clearly delineated, that you can't find in…

— Robert J. Sawyer

Our job is not to predict the future. Rather, it's to suggest all the possible futures - so that society can make…

— Robert J. Sawyer

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

How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than…

— Robert J. Sawyer

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

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

All the things that made us basically nasty, rapacious, competitive as a species are not necessarily hard-coded into whatever passes for the…

— Robert J. Sawyer

I started wondering why it is that people line up behind charismatic leaders. It's easy to understand the emergence of a figure…

— Robert J. Sawyer

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

There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those.…

— Robert J. Sawyer

If you like 'The Nature of Things,' or if you like 'Quirks and Quarks' you'll certainly like Lee Smolin's writing, and 'Time…

— Robert J. Sawyer

I was paid more for the serialization rights for each book than I got as an advance for my first novel. In…

— Robert J. Sawyer

I've long said that if Canada has a role on the world stage, it's principally as a role model, a demonstration that…

— Robert J. Sawyer

Whether it's created in a lab, written by a programmer, or lands on the White House lawn as a visitor from the…

— Robert J. Sawyer

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

A writer needs to write, period. He or she can't wait for the muse, shouldn't need peace and quiet, and isn't entitled…

— Robert J. Sawyer

What Bradbury had that most other science-fiction writers didn't have at that time was a love for beautiful language, evocative description, and…

— Robert J. Sawyer