One of the things that science fiction gets to do is thought experiments about the human condition that would be impractical or unethical to conduct in real life.

My personal mission statement is to combine the intimately human and the grandly cosmic. I like to think that science fiction works on these two different scales.

Science fiction is the WikiLeaks of science, getting word to the public about what cutting-edge research really means.

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.

Print science fiction writers often do consulting for government bodies.

Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.