“Perhaps most famously, Gibson wrote Neuromancer without the aid of a computer, and indeed, without knowing much about computers at all. This ignorance led to a lesson that every scifi writer, fan and everybody else should learn: your knowledge might be crippling your imagination. Gibson was free to imagine virtual social networks and complex visual interfaces primarily because he had no reason to think otherwise.” — Avi Abrams, DarkRoastedBlend
“It’s actually harder to write science fiction, because you have to know more. I’ve never been a hard science fiction writer, but even writing a non-hard science fiction story you have to know a lot more about science and the world and how things work than you do to write a fantasy.” — Veteran SF editor Gardner Dozois, interviewed in Locus.
That’s just al ittle inspiration to get your juices flowing next time you try to put pen to paper. Actually I would encourage anyone reading this to put pen to paper anyway. Write anything… just write… I’d venture to say it’s good for you and the entire Universe. No shit. Try it and you’ll see what I mean.
