I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything.

  • -- Sigourney Weaver 西格尼·韦弗

我并不认为科幻小说是虚构的。我能想象火星上的殖民地和一切。

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The hardest part about writing fiction is finding long stretches of time to do it: for me, this means writing mostly on Saturdays and Sundays. But I am always thinking about my characters, jotting down ideas in stolen moments and hoping I'll be able to make sense of them when the weekend rolls around.

写小说最难的部分是找到很长的时间来写作:对我来说,这意味着大部分时间都要在周六和周日写作。但我总是在想我的角色,在偷来的瞬间写下我的想法,希望周末到来时我能弄懂它们。

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.

我不认为科学方法和科幻方法是真正相似的。关于它们的问题是,这两种方法都没有得到很好的实践,至少不是有意识的。但事实上,它们是有条理的,确实把它们联系起来了。

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

鉴于外部现实是虚构的,作者的角色几乎是多余的。他不需要虚构,因为小说已经存在了。

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

文明的存在是经地质同意的,如有变更,恕不另行通知。