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Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.

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.

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain what is, at heart, illogical.

I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is really, really poor! If you look at the whole history of science fiction, what people have said is going to happen, what writers have said is going to happen, and what actually happened - it's terrible.

I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate - it helps us look at our society from a different perspective. It lets us look at our mores, using science as the backdrop, as the game changer.

Science fiction is exciting because it promises to show the world and the universe from perspectives radically unlike what we've seen before.

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.