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People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.
Around 1930, a small new phenomenon arose in Depression-ridden America, spawned out of the letter columns in science fiction magazines: fandom.
Implanting a microchip inside the brain to augment its mental powers has long been a science fiction trope.
Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on.
I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.
I think you can get away with being a bit more political in science fiction.
I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.
My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.
So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy.
