Canadian - Writer | April 29, 1960 -
Science fiction's power, if it has any, is that it gives us reasonable extrapolations, not wild and woolly stuff.
Robert J. Sawyer
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I would love to write more about my hardboiled gumshoe on Mars, Alex Lomax.
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An agnostic is someone who believes the nature of the Divine is unknowable... and in that sense, I'm willing to subscribe to being an agnostic.
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It's possible that there is a guiding intelligence in our universe. I don't see a lot of personal evidence for an interventionist-on-an-individual-basis-deity. I have friends who very much do believe in that. But I don't.
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My personal mission statement is to combine the intimately human and the grandly cosmic. I like to think that science fiction works on these two different scales.
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We're wired somehow to want to be part of something bigger. And we quest to understand what our role is.
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The great thing about science fiction is that it transcends national boundaries.
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Our job is not to predict the future. Rather, it's to suggest all the possible futures - so that society can make informed decisions about where we want to go.
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Science fiction is the WikiLeaks of science, getting word to the public about what cutting-edge research really means.
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Print science fiction writers often do consulting for government bodies.
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