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My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated.
Frederik Pohl
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A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.
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It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.
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A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas.
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In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.
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If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want.
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I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.
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The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring.
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People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.
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The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.
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I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.
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Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great).
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I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette.
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The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten.
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That's the method: restructure the world we live in in some way, then see what happens.
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