Stephen R George When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing. – Stephen R George
Stanley Schmidt And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers come from those backgrounds, so does much of the fiction. – Stanley Schmidt
Stanley Schmidt I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it, are, by the nature of the beast, interested in other cultures, of which other nations on Earth are the closest available example. – Stanley Schmidt
Stanley Schmidt I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent, the same as any other fashion. – Stanley Schmidt
Stanley Schmidt Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it would be hard to deny that, for whatever reasons, a lot of SF writers come from Anglo or European backgrounds. – Stanley Schmidt
Stanley Schmidt What SF can do better than anything else is show us the range of our possible futures, and what we can do to realize the good ones and avoid the nasty ones. – Stanley Schmidt
Rudy Rucker Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it’s done, keep sending it out for quite awhile. – Rudy Rucker
Robert J Sawyer I’m a very skeptical guy: my willing suspension of disbelief doesn’t go very far when I’m reading other people’s SF, and it goes even less far when I’m writing my own. – Robert J Sawyer
Piers Anthony SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible. – Piers Anthony
Philip K Dick I used to dig in the garden, and there isn’t anything fantastic or ultradimensional about crab grass… unless you are a SF writer, in which case, pretty soon you’re viewing crabgrass with suspicion. What are its real motives? And who sent it in the first place? The question I always found myself asking was, ‘What is it, really?’ – Philip K Dick
