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Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to begin.

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Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just…
I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent, the same…
Its limitations are those of the physical universe: it won't let you play with some really wild ideas that aren't possible, but…
Usually if nobody hates a piece, nobody loves it, either; and a magazine which sets itself the goal of provoking thought is…
There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully hard to…
There are a significant number of people who appreciate what we do, and most of them gravitate to Analog because this is…
When something hasn't been around much for a while, and one example of it turns up and catches people's eyes, they go…
This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing…
I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it, are, by…
Ideally, I'd like every issue to include a diverse group of stories that meet the qualifications sketched above, but covering a wide…
What SF can do better than anything else is show us the range of our possible futures, and what we can do…
Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it…

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