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When I first started, my novels were set in the far future.

Traditionally, the science fiction reader has been the 16- to 24-year-old male, especially the male with an interest in technology.

The standard model of particle physics says that the universe consists of a very small number of particles, 12, and a very small number of forces, four. If we're correct about those 12 particles and those four forces and understand...

Science fiction's power, if it has any, is that it gives us reasonable extrapolations, not wild and woolly stuff.

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

The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out about.

I'm a member of the Writers Guild of America and the Writers Guild of Canada.

You can't be a 21st-century science fiction writer writing about Mars without doing tips of the hat to Edgar Rice Burroughs, to Ray Bradbury, to H.G. Wells, to the guys who first put it in the public imagination that Mars...

The single best thing about Mars is the reduced gravity. It's 38 percent of Earth's gravity - about one third. Almost never have you seen that portrayed in film or television. Mars is just portrayed as a place that's got...

The only shows that Americans watch in big numbers are shows about lawyers, doctors, or cops... People don't tune in to watch scientists unless they are forensic scientists.

I'm often characterized as an optimistic writer, and certainly my 'Neanderthal Parallax' and 'WWW' trilogies shade toward the utopian. I like to think that's not simple naivete, but rather a reasonable approach.

I really strived to give equal weight to the two halves of my genre's name: science and fiction.

Hard science fiction, which is what I write, often is rightly criticized for having either negligible or unbelievable characterization, but the science I've actually studied most post-secondarily is psychology, and characterization is the art of dramatizing psychological principles.

Real people are complex, contradictory, and have their own motivations - they can't just be mouthpieces for the writers' point of view.

If you look at the United States, most of the country is pretty much uninhabited.

The traditional route to success in science fiction is by making a name for yourself in short fiction, so people who read science fiction magazines will recognize your byline on a novel.

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 cover stories in that magazine. Quite an enviable record.

I was paid more for the serialization rights for each book than I got as an advance for my first novel. In other words, there is an economic value in serialization in and of itself.

The general public still thinks that science fiction has nothing to do with their day-to-day lives.

You fall into a black hole, and you are irretrievably gone from the universe. That finality has made it irresistible to writers.

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