When I first started, my novels were set in the far future.
Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing.
Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.
I read a lot of science fiction, and it's ingrained, in a certain way, and I've been very involved with Kerouac and the Beats, but before that, it was a lot of science fiction.
Science fiction still is an idea genre.
I hate science fiction.
'2001: A Space Odyssey' is a movie that really impressed me as a teenager. And also 'Blade Runner.' And 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is also one of my favorites. I'm always looking for sci-fi material, and it's difficult to find original and strong material that's not just about weaponry.
When I started writing, there was nothing about zombies. It was all teen movies, which to me are scarier than zombies, but that's another story.
I do like to write about dark subjects.
What I've found I really like about sci-fi is it can look at philosophical questions about humanity but in a different context. It can really make you think. That's what 'Doctor Who' does, even if it's a bit silly some other times.
I've never really been into the sci-fi genre myself.
I'm a huge fan of classic sci-fi.
A lot of sci-fi shows are very cold, too concerned with hardware.
Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.
Science fiction has never been about the future; it's always been about the present day whether it's Victorian England that Wells was writing about or the post-9/11 era that I'm writing about.
Sci-fi films are as dead as westerns.
I first read Heinlein when I was very young.
I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.
I want to do science fiction with dark stories.
I think teens are drawn to these speculative books that portray what might happen and what could happen.
I like sci-fi.
Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.
I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.
I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.
Science fiction has always had a dark side. There has been a touch of the irrational and absurd in the genre from the very beginning.
