The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.

The way you write science fiction is: you sit down at your writing machine and you open your mind to the first thought that comes through.

A lot of science fiction is science-based, and it comes about because people notice something interesting about science and work it into a story.