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I had never seen much of Star Trek, or any other science fiction, before I was cast. But Seven's wonderful.

The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental.

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.

I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published.

I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.

That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you understand much better where you come from, much better than fiction, I think.

I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.

Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction.

And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers come from those backgrounds, so does much of the fiction.

With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be.

I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.

Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it.

In the meantime, I just have to create those realistic goals about the fact that I don't have a ton of options as an actor who's been on a science fiction show for 8 years.

I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.

I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way.