Where Subtlety Fails Us We Must Simply

Predicting Has A Spotty Record In Science Fiction. I've Had Some Failures. On The Other Hand, I Also Predicted The Fall Of The Berlin Wall And The Rise Of Fundamentalist Islam... And I'm Not Happy To Be Right In All Of Those Cases

My First Duty To Write A Gripping Yarn. Second Is To Convey Credible Characters Who Make You Feel What They Feel. Only Third Comes The Idea.

The Fundamental Premise Of Sci-fi Is Not Spaceships And Lasers - It's That Children Can Learn From The Mistakes Of Their Parents.

It Is Said That Power Corrupts, But Actually It's More True That Power Attracts The Corruptible. The Sane Are Usually Attracted By Other Things Than Power.

Science Fiction Is The Jazz Of Literature.