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The future depicted in a good SF story ought to be in fact possible, or at least plausible. That means that the writer should be…

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You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it.
The future depicted in a good SF story ought to be in fact possible, or at least plausible. That means that the…
That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality…
What were we doing here? Traveling hundreds or thousands of light-years, to break our hearts?
You can't really predict the future. All you can do is invent it.
I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down…
I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.
The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages…

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