Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.
Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500...
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
Writing is a communication.
As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hyp...
Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical mess...
You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it.
My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.
A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content.
I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.
We are now in a position to determine just what sort of science fiction story this really is.
In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.