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If fiction changes things, it's usually because it's a powerful way of exploring social issues. And it helps us to understand people who are different from us.

I think everybody goes through changes, and the same should be said for fictional characters, especially ones that you follow on television.

Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.

The best fiction stays with you and changes you.

We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and analyze the impact of that and put it in context of how it affects people.

Whenever I read a contemporary literary novel that describes the world we're living in, I wait for the science fiction tools to come out. Because they have to - the material demands it.

Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future.

In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.

I don't put a very clear label on my work. If anything, I write science fiction - looking at a moment now, in the present, and then extrapolating outward to think about what the future might look like if this particular trend goes on, or if this particular trend is the most dominant. That's a science fictional tool.

We have to learn to adapt to people and changes. Change is good.