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Robert J. Sawyer
Robert J. Sawyer
Canadian Writer
Born: Apr 29, 1960
About Fiction People Science World You
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The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out about. Robert J. Sawyer
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Everything is cross-platform now. That's part of the reality that we live in - a multifaceted, multimedia world - and I'm delighted to be a part of that. Robert J. Sawyer
Reality World Live Everything Delighted Part Multifaceted Multimedia Now
Our job is not to predict the future. Rather, it's to suggest all the possible futures - so that society can make informed decisions about where we want to go. Robert J. Sawyer
Future Job Predict Society Our Possible Futures About Rather Make Go Where Want Informed Decisions Suggest
We absolutely do some of the best science in the world in Canada, across a broad spectrum of disciplines: quantum computing in Waterloo, paleontology in Alberta, neuroscience at the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health in Vancouver, and many more. Robert J. Sawyer
Best Health Science World Waterloo Broad Vancouver Some More Neuroscience Absolutely Computing Disciplines Quantum Brain Canada Centre Across Many Spectrum
People are looking for a simplicity in their fictional worlds where good and evil are clearly delineated, that you can't find in the real world, and that provides an enormous comfort - and that, I think, has an awful lot to do with the reason fantasy is so popular. Robert J. Sawyer
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You can't be a 21st-century science fiction writer writing about Mars without doing tips of the hat to Edgar Rice Burroughs, to Ray Bradbury, to H.G. Wells, to the guys who first put it in the public imagination that Mars was an exciting place. Robert J. Sawyer
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A short story is one idea; a novel is a whole soup of them. Robert J. Sawyer
Idea Soup Short Short Story Story Them Whole Novel
I think most people are indifferent in their evaluation of what is good or bad. Robert J. Sawyer
Good People Think Bad Indifferent Most Evaluation
Writing is transmogrifying, not just for the reader but also for the author; an author becomes someone he or she isn't by living the lives of his or her characters. Robert J. Sawyer
Writing Living Characters Someone He He Or She Also She Reader Becomes His Author Just Lives Her
Once we no longer have the intellectual upper hand, then we quite literally, by definition, cannot outwit our successors. So unless we are absolutely sure that the machines we are building right now are not going to eventually become our new robot overlords, prudence is called for. Robert J. Sawyer
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Sci-fi is just as much about social science as technology. Robert J. Sawyer
Technology Science About Sci-Fi Just Just As Much Social Much
The standard model of particle physics says that the universe consists of a very small number of particles, 12, and a very small number of forces, four. If we're correct about those 12 particles and those four forces and understand how they interact, properly, we have the recipe for baking up a universe. Robert J. Sawyer
Physics Universe Recipe Correct Those Says Consists About Properly Small Particle Particles Baking Forces Understand How Up Very Model Interact Standard Four Number
The single best thing about Mars is the reduced gravity. It's 38 percent of Earth's gravity - about one third. Almost never have you seen that portrayed in film or television. Mars is just portrayed as a place that's got reddish sand but is otherwise pretty much identical to the Mojave Desert, and that's not the case. Robert J. Sawyer
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The only shows that Americans watch in big numbers are shows about lawyers, doctors, or cops... People don't tune in to watch scientists unless they are forensic scientists. Robert J. Sawyer
People Doctors Big Unless About Only Lawyers Scientists Forensic American Tune Shows Watch Cops Numbers
I'm often characterized as an optimistic writer, and certainly my 'Neanderthal Parallax' and 'WWW' trilogies shade toward the utopian. I like to think that's not simple naivete, but rather a reasonable approach. Robert J. Sawyer
Simple Think Approach Characterized Shade Rather Writer Toward Naivete Like Optimistic Often Certainly Reasonable Utopian
Hard science fiction, which is what I write, often is rightly criticized for having either negligible or unbelievable characterization, but the science I've actually studied most post-secondarily is psychology, and characterization is the art of dramatizing psychological principles. Robert J. Sawyer
Art Science Negligible Characterization Rightly Criticized Unbelievable Having Write Studied Most Principles Science Fiction Often Fiction Psychological Psychology Either Which Hard Actually
Real people are complex, contradictory, and have their own motivations - they can't just be mouthpieces for the writers' point of view. Robert J. Sawyer
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If you look at the United States, most of the country is pretty much uninhabited. Robert J. Sawyer
You Country States Pretty Look Most Much United United States
The traditional route to success in science fiction is by making a name for yourself in short fiction, so people who read science fiction magazines will recognize your byline on a novel. Robert J. Sawyer
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By serializing two novels in 'Analog,' the world's No. 1, best-selling science fiction magazine, I've had 200,000 words of fiction and three cover stories in that magazine. Quite an enviable record. Robert J. Sawyer
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The general public still thinks that science fiction has nothing to do with their day-to-day lives. Robert J. Sawyer
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You fall into a black hole, and you are irretrievably gone from the universe. That finality has made it irresistible to writers. Robert J. Sawyer
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Everything that I can do to ground the story in reality helps make it harder for people to be dismissive of it. Robert J. Sawyer
Reality People Everything Make Story Ground Helps Harder
The fact we exist merely means we exist. That's all it means. Robert J. Sawyer
Fact Merely Exist Means
In addition to psychopaths, 'Quantum Night' is also a novel about literally thoughtless people, without inner voices, thoughts in their heads. Robert J. Sawyer
Thoughts People Addition Thoughtless About Voices Heads Also Without Quantum Literally Novel Inner Night
One of the things that science fiction gets to do is thought experiments about the human condition that would be impractical or unethical to conduct in real life. Robert J. Sawyer
Life Science Thought Real Life One Of The Things Would Would-Be About Science Fiction Real Condition Impractical Conduct Unethical Gets Human Fiction Experiments Human Condition Things
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