Canadian - Writer | April 29, 1960 -
Sci-fi is just as much about social science as technology.
Robert J. Sawyer
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Science fiction is about things that plausibly might happen. Grounding my work in the real world helps make that clear.
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Science fiction has always been a means for political comment. H.G. Wells' 'The War of the Worlds' wasn't about a Martian invasion - it was a critique of British colonialism, and... 'The Time Machine' is really an indictment of the British class system.
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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.
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Science fiction is about extrapolation, looking back through history, spotting a trend, and predicting where it will go.
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One of the standard story-generating engines for science fiction is to take something we normally think of as metaphoric and treat it as if it were literal.
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The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is the world's greatest pure physics thinktank, and it's located here in Canada, in Waterloo, Ont.
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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.
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One gets a bit picky after having the success of something like 'FlashForward!'
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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.
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I frankly couldn't imagine being a series mystery-fiction writer, churning out book after book about the same viewpoint character.
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Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you.
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