Some of the biggest changes that have happened are behind the scenes, in the way we produce the magazine. E.g., much of our production has been brought in-house via desktop publishing. Stanley Schmidt Read Quote
Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it would be hard to deny that, for whatever reasons, a lot of SF writers come from Anglo or European backgrounds. Stanley Schmidt Read Quote
Its limitations are those of the physical universe: it won’t let you play with some really wild ideas that aren’t possible, but are fun to speculate about. Stanley Schmidt Read Quote
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 specific matter and flavour. Stanley Schmidt Read Quote
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 other fashion. Stanley Schmidt Read Quote
As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone. Stanley Schmidt Read Quote
