“Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.” GivingDoeHappensOpportunityFictionGive MeScience FictionScenariosGreat OpportunityFuturist Author:Ray Kurzweil
“A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.” StoriesMightFictionScience FictionSettingSettingsScenariosGood ScienceFiction Stories Author:Jamais Cascio
“What I'm doing is exploring things. This is why I'm a fiction writer rather than an essayist or a politician or whatever. I just gather material and find a scenario, and see where it takes me. I don't have a plan.” FictionPlansMaterialsPoliticianTake MeExploringScenariosFiction WritersEssayists Author:T.C. Boyle
“I make non-fiction partly because I'm not that good of a writer. My talent, if I have any, is in balancing, capturing and directing reality, rather than creating scenarios.” IfsRealityFictionTalentCreatingScenariosNon Fiction Author:Robert Greene