On This Day I Want To Tell

My Old English Buddy, John Rackham, Wrote And Told Me What Made Science Fiction Different From All Other Kinds Of Literature - Science Fiction Is Written According To The Science Fiction Method.

For Someone To Be Taken Seriously It Was Valuable To Have The Appearance Of Someone Who Deserved To Be Taken Seriously.

You Can't Trust Reason. We Threw It Out Of The Ad Profession Long Ago And Have Never Missed It.

I Did That For 40 Years Or More. I Never Had Any Writer's Block. I Got Up In The Morning, Sat Down At The Typewriter - Now, Computer - Lit Up A Cigarette.

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.