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. Stanley Schmidt Read Quote
And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers come from those backgrounds, so does much of the fiction. Stanley Schmidt Read Quote
It’s most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises. Stanley Schmidt Read Quote
I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it, are, by the nature of the beast, interested in other cultures, of which other nations on Earth are the closest available example. Stanley Schmidt Read Quote
This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background – which sometimes means doing fairly involved calculations. Stanley Schmidt Read Quote
It’s easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It’s harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better. Stanley Schmidt Read Quote
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 more like it – until they get tired of it again. Stanley Schmidt Read Quote
Usually if nobody hates a piece, nobody loves it, either; and a magazine which sets itself the goal of provoking thought is not doing its job if everybody agrees with what it does. Stanley Schmidt Read Quote
There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though – it’s been awfully hard to keep ahead of real developments. Stanley Schmidt Read Quote
There are a significant number of people who appreciate what we do, and most of them gravitate to Analog because this is where they can find it. The other magazines tend to share their audiences, which may result in each of them having a smaller market share. Stanley Schmidt Read Quote
