I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

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The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

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The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten.

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It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

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My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated.

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That's the method: restructure the world we live in in some way, then see what happens.

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A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.

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I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

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People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.

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In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.

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