Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract.
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I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way.
Science fiction is very healthy in its form.
I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.
Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.
Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.
Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future.
Doing science fiction at a high level is tricky. It's really tricky.
Science fiction has traditionally been economically naive, with a strong libertarian streak, which I think is like a crude Leninism. That's attractive because it could be used to explain everything, and if only we lived by its tenets, everything would be perfect.
I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.
Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.
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