A lot of science fiction is science-based, and it comes about because people notice something interesting about science and work it into a story.
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The way you write science fiction is you sit down at your writing machine and you open your mind to the first thought that comes through.Frederik Pohl
Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great).
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You look at the world around you, and you take it apart into all its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens.
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I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.
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My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated.
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