The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.
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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
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No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.
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