"What SF can do better than anything else……" — Stanley Schmidt
"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 good ones and avoid the nasty ones."
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Stanley Schmidt
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20 Quotes by Stanley Schmidt
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Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story…
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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,…
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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…
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Usually if nobody hates a piece, nobody loves it, either; and a magazine which sets itself the goal of provoking…
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There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully…
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There are a significant number of people who appreciate what we do, and most of them gravitate to Analog because…
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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,…
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This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes…
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I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it,…
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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…
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Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background,…
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As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least…
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