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• That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality…
• What were we doing here? Traveling hundreds or thousands of light-years, to break our hearts?
• You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it.
• You can't really predict the future. All you can do is invent it.
• I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down…
• I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.
• The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages…
• The future depicted in a good SF story ought to be in fact possible, or at least plausible. That means that the…
• I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.
• The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.
• You don't think progress goes in a straight line, do you? Do you recognize that it is an ascending, accelerating, maybe even…
• In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do…

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