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.
I hate science fiction.
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.
Science fiction still is an idea genre.
'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.
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.
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.
Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.
I first read Heinlein when I was very young.
Sci-fi films are as dead as westerns.
I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.
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 want to do science fiction with dark stories.
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.
I quite enjoy science fiction.
