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I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist.

Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.

In the culture at large, the war over science fiction's creative validity has been long since won, but guardians at the gates of literature, movies, and TV linger unconvinced, even as other genres fitfully transcend critical perceptions of insubstantiality.

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.

In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

Too many writers of fiction don't give the reader enough credit.

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.

If you've read a lot of vintage science fiction, as I have at one time or another in my life, you can't help but realise how wrong we get it. I have gotten it wrong more times than I've gotten it right. But I knew that when I started; I knew that before I wrote a word of science fiction.