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If You Don't Care About Science Enough To Be Interested In It On Its Own, You Shouldn't Try To Write Hard Science Fiction. You Can Write Like Ray Bradbury And Harlan Ellison As Much As You Want.

You Don't Think Progress Goes In A Straight Line, Do You? Do You Recognize That It Is An Ascending, Accelerating, Maybe Even Exponential Curve? It Takes Hell's Own Time To Get Started, But When It Goes It Goes Like A Bomb.

The Future Depicted In A Good Sf Story Ought To Be In Fact Possible, Or At Least Plausible. That Means That The Writer Should Be Able To Convince The Reader (and Himself) That The Wonders He Is Describing Really Can Come True... And That Gets Tricky When You Take A Good, Hard Look At The World Around You.

People As Me How I Do Research For My Science Fiction. The Answer Is, I Never Do Any Research.

They Were Two Lovely Choices. One Of Them Meant Giving Up Every Chance Of A Decent Life Forever...and The Other One Scared Me Out Of My Mind.