Most science fiction is about white men who are 25 to 30, who are very smart, who face a physical problem and solve it.
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I wanted to write a sci-fi story that would appeal to young women. Loads of girls like sci-fi, but it's more culturally associated with guys.
There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.
We are living in a science fiction world.
I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human.
Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.
I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.
Many fiction writers who put the science in don't get it right.
Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
The 'science' in 'science fiction' isn't just physics and engineering. It can also be linguistics, anthropology, and psychology.
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