I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist.

Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.

Physics is often stranger than science fiction, and I think science fiction takes its cues from physics: higher dimensions, wormholes, the warping of space and time, stuff like that.

Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "make me pretty.

I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.

Fiction is nothing but non-fiction couched to conceal the identity of the writer.