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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future.
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.
Science fiction in particular is often assumed to be about the future, or about some abstract technological or philosophical idea, or just about 'adventure,' but writers can't build worlds out of nothing. We use bits and pieces of the real world to assemble our fictional ones.
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.
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.
I write science fiction for people who don't read a great deal of science fiction.
Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction.
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.
I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.
I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist.