
Source: Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology (1984), p. 1
Source: Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology (1984), p. 1
"The Imagination of Disaster" from Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966), p. 212
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966)
“The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real.”
“Like most science-fiction writers, Trout knew almost nothing about science.”
Breakfast of Champions (1973)
A Conversation With Neal Stephenson http://www.sfsite.com/10b/ns67.htm
“Science Fiction is the fiction of ideas.”
The Paris Review interview (2010)
Context: Science Fiction is the fiction of ideas. Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves. Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn’t exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.
"How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later" (1978)