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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.

What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if it were - the drawbacks and the positive things.

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve problems in creative ways.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

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

When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions.

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.