Canadian - Writer | April 29, 1960 -
By serializing two novels in 'Analog,' the world's No. 1, best-selling science fiction magazine, I've had 200,000 words of fiction and three cover stories in that magazine. Quite an enviable record.
Robert J. Sawyer
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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.
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The general public still thinks that science fiction has nothing to do with their day-to-day lives.
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Science fiction should not be dismissed as escapism. It is a profound vehicle for talking about social and political issues.
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Everything that I can do to ground the story in reality helps make it harder for people to be dismissive of it.
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The fact we exist merely means we exist. That's all it means.
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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.
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In addition to psychopaths, 'Quantum Night' is also a novel about literally thoughtless people, without inner voices, thoughts in their heads.
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One of the things that science fiction gets to do is thought experiments about the human condition that would be impractical or unethical to conduct in real life.
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When I started publishing - my first novel came out in 1990 - there were no options for publishing science fiction in Canada. There were no small presses, and the large presses simply would not touch it at all.
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My mother is an American.
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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.
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