It's often better to read first-rate science fiction than second-rate science - it's far more stimulating, and perhaps no more likely to be wrong.

Maybe the search for life shouldn't restrict attention to planets like Earth. Science fiction writers have other ideas: balloon-like creatures floating in the dense atmospheres of planets such as Jupiter, swarms of intelligent insects, nano-scale robots and more.

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more good science fiction than anyone else alive.

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.