Gregory Benford

Like immense time-binding discussions, genres allow ideas to be developed and traded, and for variations to be spun down through decades. ”

Enzymes - plainly the most important biotechnology of our era - already permeate many industrial processes. Unlike fossil fuels, they carry chemical programming which drives complex reactions, are renewable, and work at ordinary pressures and temperatures. ”

Terraforming our moon will take many decades and vast abilities. Before we can begin, we'll have to master the resources of our solar system - especially transporting raw masses over interplanetary distances. ”

As a literature of change driven by technology, science fiction presents religion to a part of the reading public that probably seldom goes to church. ”

This was the 1940s; there was no television. It was a different age - it was not swamped by media; it was swamped by reality, and storytelling was a very big art where I came from. ”

Star Trek' is notorious for looting the more thoughtful work of writers for their striking effects, leaving behind most of the thought and subtlety. ”

Whatever the life form, evolution selects for economy of resources. ”