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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.

Science fiction is about extrapolation, looking back through history, spotting a trend, and predicting where it will go.

Robert J. Sawyer

When I first started, my novels were set in the far future.

Robert J. Sawyer

Sci-fi is just as much about social science as technology.

Robert J. Sawyer

Science fiction should not be dismissed as escapism. It is a profound vehicle for talking about social and political issues.

Robert J. Sawyer

A lot of people forget that the origin of science fiction in the U.S. was in the post-First World War period when there was a real interest to get people into technical careers.

Robert J. Sawyer

The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out about.

Robert J. Sawyer

I've long said that if Canada has a role on the world stage, it's principally as a role model, a demonstration that people of all types can get together and live in peace and harmony, which is something we really do most of the time here.

Robert J. Sawyer

I'm a rationalist. And I can see no evidence for a benevolent and interventionist creator.

Robert J. Sawyer

Everything is cross-platform now. That's part of the reality that we live in - a multifaceted, multimedia world - and I'm delighted to be a part of that.

Robert J. Sawyer

There's always been a quality to being a science-fiction reader. Usually, you're the only one in your class, or there are only one or two in your whole town. You're always the guy who reads that strange stuff.

Robert J. Sawyer

Science fiction is about things that plausibly might happen. Grounding my work in the real world helps make that clear.

Robert J. Sawyer

I was paid more for the serialization rights for each book than I got as an advance for my first novel. In other words, there is an economic value in serialization in and of itself.

Robert J. Sawyer

A short story is the shortest distance between two points; a novel is the scenic route.

Robert J. Sawyer

I really strived to give equal weight to the two halves of my genre's name: science and fiction.

Robert J. Sawyer

I've had many of my books optioned.

Robert J. Sawyer

George Orwell's science-fiction classic 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' wasn't a failure because the future it predicted failed to come to pass. Rather, it was a resounding success because it helped us prevent that future.

Robert J. Sawyer

You have to have confidence in where you're going. Don't live and die by the fans' tweets.

Robert J. Sawyer

Whether it's created in a lab, written by a programmer, or lands on the White House lawn as a visitor from the stars, if it acts like a human being, it is a human being.

Robert J. Sawyer

The general public still thinks that science fiction has nothing to do with their day-to-day lives.

Robert J. Sawyer

I'm a very skeptical guy: my willing suspension of disbelief doesn't go very far when I'm reading other people's SF, and it goes even less far when I'm writing my own.

Robert J. Sawyer

I frankly couldn't imagine being a series mystery-fiction writer, churning out book after book about the same viewpoint character.

Robert J. Sawyer

I started wondering why it is that people line up behind charismatic leaders. It's easy to understand the emergence of a figure who's narcissistic and compelling. But why people follow this person mindlessly - that was the hard question to me.

Robert J. Sawyer

If you like 'The Nature of Things,' or if you like 'Quirks and Quarks' you'll certainly like Lee Smolin's writing, and 'Time Reborn' is his latest nonfiction book, and it's an absolutely compelling read. It's worth the time.

Robert J. Sawyer

Science fiction's power, if it has any, is that it gives us reasonable extrapolations, not wild and woolly stuff.

Robert J. Sawyer

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

I'm a fiction writer, and fiction is telling the lives of unreal people. But the only way you can learn to do that well is by really understanding the lives of real people.

Robert J. Sawyer

An agnostic is someone who believes the nature of the Divine is unknowable... and in that sense, I'm willing to subscribe to being an agnostic.

Robert J. Sawyer

We absolutely do some of the best science in the world in Canada, across a broad spectrum of disciplines: quantum computing in Waterloo, paleontology in Alberta, neuroscience at the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health in Vancouver, and many more.

Robert J. Sawyer

Social progress is a big thing for me. Although science fiction is traditionally concerned with the hard sciences, which is chemistry, physics, and, some might argue, biology, my father was and still is a social scientist at the University of Toronto.

Robert J. Sawyer

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.

Robert J. Sawyer

All the things that made us basically nasty, rapacious, competitive as a species are not necessarily hard-coded into whatever passes for the DNA of artificial intelligence.

Robert J. Sawyer

Bradbury was the one guy who was published in places like the 'Saturday Evening Post.' He was the guy who brought science fiction to the masses. If he hadn't existed, science fiction would have been a well-kept secret in literature instead of a widely consumed phenomenon.

Robert J. Sawyer

Everything that I can do to ground the story in reality helps make it harder for people to be dismissive of it.

Robert J. Sawyer

You fall into a black hole, and you are irretrievably gone from the universe. That finality has made it irresistible to writers.

Robert J. Sawyer

When you're changing centuries, people get curious about the future.

Robert J. Sawyer

I think most people are indifferent in their evaluation of what is good or bad.

Robert J. Sawyer