There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

I like science fiction and I read it a lot - if I were a collector, I would bid for his works,

I was still asleep; distracted in my idyll with
death. She wouldn’t let me go… my lover… my
accomplice into nothingness. The Night… who was the lover of the darkness, lover of the nothingness, lover of the death, lover of mine! Meanwhile the eternity, my other lover, was waiting for me in the end…

Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.

I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.