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Sf Quotes by Stanley Schmidt
- I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent, the same as any other…
- I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it, are, by the nature of…
- What SF can do better than anything else is show us the range of our possible futures, and what we can do to realize the…
- Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it would be hard…
- And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers come…
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- Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book… — Janet Morris
- To write good SF today...you must push further and harder, reach deeper into your own mind until you break through into the… — Gardner Dozois
- Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a… — Greg Egan
- That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality… — Frederik Pohl
- Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud. — Theodore Sturgeon
- I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of… — Theodore Sturgeon
- An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more… — Walter Jon Williams
- Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information and regurgitated… — Walter Jon Williams