Lisa Cholodenko I was a student at SF State, and I honestly didn’t know where I was headed. I thought maybe something in the social sciences. But I happened to be living with a group of people, and one person was a film student. I was always keen on and aware of what she was doing. – Lisa Cholodenko
Leila Janah I love adventure. When I’m not working or on the road, you can find me in my favorite spots around the Mission neighborhood of S.F., kitesurfing in the Bay or dancing. – Leila Janah
Larry Niven SF isn’t a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off. – Larry Niven
Karl Schroeder There’s no possibility that foresight work will ruin my creativity. It goes to a different area than the creative wellspring of SF. – Karl Schroeder
Karl Schroeder I have been doing technology foresight for a number of years now on the level of scenario design, primarily. I want to become more rigorous with research methodology and statistical methods. I want to shift from creating clever SF scenarios to being a professional forecaster able to make rigorous predictions. – Karl Schroeder
Karl Schroeder The way I usually put it is that as an SF writer, I’m never required to be right. – Karl Schroeder
Karen Joy Fowler Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as an insider, someone who was a fan first and came to S.F. writing as an enthusiastic reader. – Karen Joy Fowler
John Sladek Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything. – John Sladek
John Sladek I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I’m sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection. – John Sladek
John Sladek To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never been solved and never will be solved – I’m thinking of Philip K. Dick’s work here, dealing with questions of reality, for example. – John Sladek
Joe Murray Since this was the first and only series I had ever produced, I was unaware of what the ‘Normal’ environment was for a studio. I tried to run it as I did in my SF studio. – Joe Murray
