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

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

Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to begin.

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

Blaming society makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Yes, we'll have to put a stop to this bookworming. No future in that.

To master magical realism, one must make the real seem unreal but, more importantly, make the unreal seem real.

Autumn began to run. She felt an icy terror flood through her. He must have been waiting for her. He’d followed her all the way here. To this open, empty place. He knows where I live.

Football is an art form in itself. All sports are.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.

It's easier to die when you have lived than it is to die when you haven't.

I have found that if you invest in the lives of people, well-feed sheep will reproduce themselves.

One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.

Forgiveness is Truth itself. It is Righteousness, it is the Veda. It is the supreme virtue in this world.

When you're sick, nobody takes care of you like your mom.