But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.
Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.
I consider Yoda to be just about the most evil character that I've ever seen in the history of literature.
I really respect and admire Tolkien. I think he was the most honest of the Romantics.
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events.
Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.
Science fiction is the field that explores how change can affect us, for well or ill.
The fundamental premise of sci-fi is not spaceships and lasers - it's that children can learn from the mistakes of their parents.
Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... And I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases.
There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.