I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time since I was 11 or 12 I think so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books.
I had never seen much of Star Trek or any other science fiction before I was cast. But Seven's wonderful.
I dig science fiction though it was never really my thing.
With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them whoever they may be.
But Roy Rockwood it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that head-on.
Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases.
There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.
I'm not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and Indians they can act out Will and the Robot.