What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if it were - the drawbacks and the positive things.

I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more good science fiction than anyone else alive.

When I was a boy in Salem, Mass., in the 1950s, if you wanted to buy a book, you had to take a train to Boston. And when you got there, to a bookstore, there was no such thing as a science-fiction section.

Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.

I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.

Philadelphia's a good science-fiction town. There are many professional writers here, like Michael Swanwick, Tom Purdom, Gregory Frost, Victoria McManus and others. There are professional artists such as Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger and Susan McAninley.