There’s two kind of science fiction writers: the ones who write science fiction for the hard core science/science fiction nerd, and their opening chapter tends to be a hazing ritual thick with jargon and complex concepts. Robert J. Sawyer is one of the bestselling science fiction writers of his generation — and he’s from Toronto. I teach science fiction writing periodically, I always start off by saying look at these words: Science and Fiction. That sounds kind of, here’s an awkward segue, like what Mary Shelley was doing 200 years ago when she invented science fiction. (laughing) But the answer is all a science fiction writer does is extrapolate from known data.

Source: thestar March 16, 2018 12:56 UTC