125 Quotes by Robert J. Sawyer
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Many science-fiction writers, such as Gregory Benford, are working scientists. Many others, such as Joe Haldeman, have advanced degrees in science. Others, like me, have backgrounds in science and technology journalism.
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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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George Orwell's science-fiction classic 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' wasn't a failure because the future it predicted failed to come to pass. Rather, it was a resounding success because it helped us prevent that future.
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I'm a member of the Writers Guild of America and the Writers Guild of Canada.
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I'm often characterized as an optimistic writer, and certainly my 'Neanderthal Parallax' and 'WWW' trilogies shade toward the utopian. I like to think that's not simple naivete, but rather a reasonable approach.
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Print science fiction writers often do consulting for government bodies.
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I really strived to give equal weight to the two halves of my genre's name: science and fiction.
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Hard science fiction, which is what I write, often is rightly criticized for having either negligible or unbelievable characterization, but the science I've actually studied most post-secondarily is psychology, and characterization is the art of dramatizing psychological principles.
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Real people are complex, contradictory, and have their own motivations - they can't just be mouthpieces for the writers' point of view.
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