Robert J. Sawyer

Quotes

• “I get tired of hearing some science-fiction fans saying that characterization isn't important in SF. In point of fact, I...”
• “If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increa...”
• “Regrettably, with '2001' having a title that had a year in it, science fiction essentially set itself up in the public's...”
• “Science fiction has always been a means for political comment. H.G. Wells' 'The War of the Worlds' wasn't about a Martia...”
• “And Wolfram knows about cellular automata?” “Oh, my goodness, yes,” said Anna. “He wrote a book you could kill a man wit...”
• “You can't be a 21st-century science fiction writer writing about Mars without doing tips of the hat to Edgar Rice Burrou...”
• “It's possible that there is a guiding intelligence in our universe. I don't see a lot of personal evidence for an interv...”
• “¨Kayla replied, ´And we---or the p-zeds, at any rate---copy indiscriminately, without reflection. And if the person they...”
• “George Orwell's science-fiction classic 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' wasn't a failure because the future it predicted failed t...”
• “That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunchest creationist. But...”
• “There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept thos...”
• “When we have machines that are as intelligent - and then twice as intelligent - as we are, there is no reason why that r...”
• “All the things that made us basically nasty, rapacious, competitive as a species are not necessarily hard-coded into wha...”
• “Gone. and it was completely. Everyone I'd every known, every place I'd ever been. My Mother. My father. Rebecca. Out of ...”
• “The sky above the island was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel—which is to say it was a bright, cheery bl...”