A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.

Those of us who thought Jorge Luis Borges was a pioneer of magical realism were mistaken; he was a pioneer of science fiction.

While I was in high school, I discovered and began writing science fiction.

I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.

Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of other heroes with that acerbic humor when you find it.

I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical.

Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.

Science fiction has been an inspiration to generations of scientists and engineers, and the film series 'Star Wars' is no exception.

Science fiction is one of the smartest genres around because you have to have so much forethought.

At 18, my first short story was published - I was paid a penny a word by a science fiction magazine. I continued to write, and five years later I published my first novel, 'Sweetwater.'

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

There's no one 'right' way of making a science fiction movie; there's no one way of making any kind of movie, really!

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as an insider, someone who was a fan first and came to S.F. writing as an enthusiastic reader.