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Monday, November 11, 2013

Ray Bradbury on Science Fiction

"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."
-- Ray Bradbury from a Paris Review interview (initially earmarked as “a bit informal in places, maybe overly enthusiastic” but isn't that part of the charm?)

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