Stanley Schmidt

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

— Stanley Schmidt

#answers #any #believe #big #get

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

#apply #backgrounds #close #come #course

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

#already #century #experienced #i #known

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

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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 specific matter and flavour. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#covering #diverse #every #flavour #group

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

#depressing #easy #future #harder #imagine

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

#fun #ideas #limitations #physical #play

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

#behind #biggest #brought #changes #desktop

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

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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 calculations. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

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