Asimov: One's view of humanity is that which we recognize in ourselves.
A letter to Gene Wolf from a nuclear physicist friend: My experiments in time reversal are going slower than I would like.
Ellison come across to me as an insufferable, nitpicking, egotistical, self-centered bore.
On Hollywood sci-fi movies: Take away the special effects and there is little to nothing left.
Asimov on writing about a different world/time/place: Its the little details - the ordinary, pedestrian - which have noting to do with the plot which make the story seem real.
Asimov on robots: If robots are not allowed to harm you, then the least you can do is not harm the robot - The Bicentennial Man.
Poster on the YouTube page: Gene Wolfe is the man who made science fiction into full blood art literature on par with Dostoyevsky and Dante.
Comments made that shows like this would never be broadcast by modern TV/Cable networks.
Link to a simular show with Harlan Ellison and J. Michael Straczynkski (JMS).
“Comments made that shows like this would never be broadcast by modern TV/Cable networks.”
Yup. Even on FR most of the headlines that have ‘sci-fi’ in them are almost always about some aspect of TV or movies. An actual program with sci-fi authors chewing the fat or discussing crap would be incomprehensibly boring to 99% of people. A shame.
There are internet places were they interview the old authors, Star Ship Sofa is one of them. They interviewed the fairly reclusive and now deceased Jack Vance a few times in recent years.
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