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Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff.

You write a novel by inventing a world and inventing the rules that govern that world. Then you break the rules when you want to.

You do a drama, and you are limited by the rules of reality, and in science fiction, you create your own reality. Some people find that daunting; I find it challenging.

With any sci-fi fantasy storytelling, you must have rules be very clear, otherwise you lose people, like 'OK, they can fly; now they can't fly.'

So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We'll create a world for people and then later present a narrative in that world.

We are living in a science fiction world.

Science fiction is about worlds you don't know and worlds you can create, like in 'Avatar'.

Every character a writer creates has some of themselves in it somewhere.