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I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.

Jerry reversed the usual formula of the superhero who goes to another planet. He put the superhero in ordinary, familiar surroundings, instead of the other way around, as was done in most science fiction. That was the first time I can recall that it had ever been done.

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

I've been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my Star Trek character and I've been turning them down. I strongly feel that the next role I do, I should not be wearing spandex.

I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating.

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.

I don't read Science Fiction.

I don't read fiction at all.

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction.

I'm a fan of short horror fiction... in fact, the most memorable horror I've read is of the short variety... but I have a hard time pulling it off myself.

I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income.

On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that there's no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance.

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.