I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.

Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.

As a child I read science fiction but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure I read a lot of non-fictional history particularly historical biography.

As a kid I wanted to write science fiction and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being a scientist and never thought I'd be writing novels.

Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings which everyone should then you have to read Dune too.

I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories.

I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.

In science fiction you can also test out your own realities.