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• ‟ There are similarities between historical novels and science fiction. Being thrown into the Napoleonic Wars is just as much of a different world as space.

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• ‟ We've had science fiction novels where China is dominant; we've had novels where India is dominant, and I suppose it's all about getting away from that cliched old tired idea that the future belongs to the West.

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• ‟ I think I set myself on a course to become a scientist around about the time that Carl Sagan's 'Cosmos' series was on television, and there really was no going back for me at that point, and then I went on to study space science and then get my Ph.D., then go aboard and work in the European Space Agency.

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• ‟ I'm always a little bit cautious around invented terminology because so much science fiction is off-putting to the uninitiated. You open up the first page, and it's full of all these made-up words.

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• ‟ When I look back at many of the moments of wonder, awe, or terror that I've got from science fiction, it's often been because I've been put in the head of one of the characters.

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• ‟ I am playing in a playground that's already been played in. I am always aware that a lot of the furniture in science fiction is second hand.

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• ‟ I prioritise story over science, but not at the expense of being really stupid about it.

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• ‟ I always say that keeping abreast of science should never be seen as a chore. It should be something you do naturally. I don't sit there reading 'New Scientist,' putting post-it notes next to ideas.

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• ‟ I always like Iain Banks science fiction stuff and William Gibson's cyberpunk stuff from the 1980s.

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• ‟ Most of the time, when I get an idea that hinges on some science 'thing,' it will have been because of something I read or encountered months or years earlier rather than in the last few days.

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• ‟ My mother was a part of a reading group, but they would never come near science fiction because they think it's not for them.

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• ‟ Science fiction can be very relevant, could be good literature.

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• ‟ 'Doctor Who' is part of my science fictional DNA. You could take it out of me, and I'd probably still have ended up being a writer, but almost certainly not the same one.

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• ‟ I'm not actually that bothered about the 'science fiction-ness' of 'Doctor Who.'

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• ‟ As a science fiction writer, it's hard to think of a more stirring theme than the origin and ultimate destiny of life in the universe.

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• ‟ Science fiction writers aren't short of ideas. You can read a book, and it sets off a chain of thought processes, so it becomes a response to other people's books.

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• ‟ We live in a science fictional world with things like cloning and face transplants, and things seem to be getting stranger and stranger.

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