I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the... →
James J. Gibson
A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction... →
William Gibson
I didn't have a manifesto. I had some discontent. It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream American science fiction had often been triumphalist... →
I read a great deal of science fiction with consummate pleasure between, say, the ages of 12 and 16. Then I got away from it. In my mid- to late 20s... →
I think that our future has lost that capital F we used to spell it with. The science fiction future of my childhood has had a capital F - it was... →
When I wrote 'Neuromancer', I had a list in my head of all the things the future was assumed to be which it would not be in the book I was... →
Whenever I read a contemporary literary novel that describes the world we're living in, I wait for the science fiction tools to come out. Because... →
I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.
Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.
I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction, one of the things I found lacking in it was... →