Analog Quote by Stanley Schmidt

And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers…

— Stanley Schmidt

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…

— Stanley Schmidt

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

— Stanley Schmidt

This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing fairly involved…

— Stanley Schmidt

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

— Stanley Schmidt

Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it would be…

— Stanley Schmidt

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

— Stanley Schmidt

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…

— Stanley Schmidt

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

— Stanley Schmidt

I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it, are, by the nature…

— 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…

— Stanley Schmidt

Usually if nobody hates a piece, nobody loves it, either; and a magazine which sets itself the goal of provoking thought is not doing…

— Stanley Schmidt