Traditionally, the science fiction reader has been the 16- to 24-year-old male, especially the male with an interest in technology. Robert J. Sawyer Read Quote
When the state was going to tell you what your future would be, science fiction was irrelevant. Robert J. Sawyer Read Quote
Regrettably, with ‘2001’ having a title that had a year in it, science fiction essentially set itself up in the public’s imagination as saying, ‘Here’s what you get if you wait to that year.’ Well, we all waited till that year, and we didn’t get anything at all like that. Robert J. Sawyer Read Quote
There were four major 20th-century science fiction writers: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein and Ray Bradbury. Of those four, the first three were all published principally in science-fiction magazines. They were preaching to the converted. Robert J. Sawyer Read Quote
I think there’s always been, to some degree, a misunderstanding about what science fiction is all about, in that it has been judged by the general public as being literature of prediction, and it isn’t. Robert J. Sawyer Read Quote
Hard science fiction, which is what I write, often is rightly criticized for having either negligible or unbelievable characterization, but the science I’ve actually studied most post-secondarily is psychology, and characterization is the art of dramatizing psychological principles. Robert J. Sawyer Read Quote
Real people are complex, contradictory, and have their own motivations – they can’t just be mouthpieces for the writers’ point of view. Robert J. Sawyer Read Quote
By serializing two novels in ‘Analog,’ the world’s No. 1, best-selling science fiction magazine, I’ve had 200,000 words of fiction and three cover stories in that magazine. Quite an enviable record. Robert J. Sawyer Read Quote
