When I did 'Battlestar Galactica' it was the first time I really understood science fiction. That was a very political drama, but set in spaceships so people didn't really take it seriously. But some really fascinating things were explored in that.

Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story.

I do enjoy reading some science fiction.

It's not really science-fiction, ... It's the world 30 years from
now, [a time] in which for 18 years no human child has been born, for unknown
reasons. Civilizations are falling apart. England is the last remaining
civilization as we know it, because it's an island that's insulated itself from
Europe, which is in civil wars and complete pandemonium. So the story takes
place in that context. It's a story about hope and faith.

I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.

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