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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…
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I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent, the same…
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Its limitations are those of the physical universe: it won't let you play with some really wild ideas that aren't possible, but…
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Usually if nobody hates a piece, nobody loves it, either; and a magazine which sets itself the goal of provoking thought is…
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There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully hard to…
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There are a significant number of people who appreciate what we do, and most of them gravitate to Analog because this is…
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When something hasn't been around much for a while, and one example of it turns up and catches people's eyes, they go…
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This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing…
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I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it, are, by…
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Ideally, I'd like every issue to include a diverse group of stories that meet the qualifications sketched above, but covering a wide…
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What SF can do better than anything else is show us the range of our possible futures, and what we can do…
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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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And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of…
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So many writers come to class with one question dominant in their mind, 'How do I make a living from this?' It's…
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I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.
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