All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.

Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

Print science fiction writers often do consulting for government bodies.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.