Answers Quote by Stanley Schmidt

“It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises.”

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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 the writers…

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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 range of…

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As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in…

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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 fairly involved…

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Through our entire history we have become accustomed to pushing [animals] around in ways dictated by our own wants and needs without much regard…

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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 would be…

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intricately and intriguingly woven, lots of fun, and extremely thought provoking.

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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 looking for…

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Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance.

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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 the nature…

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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 as any…

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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 where they…

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