Quotes by Stanley Schmidt - Page 1

intricately and intriguingly woven, lots of fun, and extremely thought provoking.
Stanley Schmidt / Fictioneer
Fun
Thought Provoking
Woven
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Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance.
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Style
Temptation
Writing
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It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises.
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Answers
Believe
Presumptuous
Surprise
Believe Will Never
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Blaming society makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions.
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Action
Character
Responsibility
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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.
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Mistake
Real
Writing
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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, the same as any other fashion.
Stanley Schmidt / Fictioneer
Falling In Love
Fashion
Rising
Thinking
Considerable
Extent
Falling
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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 / Fictioneer
Depressing
Harder
Plausible
Ugly
Way
Worthwhile
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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 possible, but are fun to speculate about.
Stanley Schmidt / Fictioneer
Fun
Ideas
Play
Wild
Limitations
Speculate
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Through our entire history we have become accustomed to pushing [animals] around in ways dictated by our own wants and needs without much regard for theirs.
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Animal
Needs
Want
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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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Nasty
Range
Realizing
Good Better Anything
Anything Else
Avoid
Futures
Good Ones
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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 / Fictioneer
Attention
Calculations
Mean
Writing
Fairly
Background
Close Attention
Equally
Scientific
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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 / Fictioneer
Intimidating
Pace
Real
Suggestions
Technological Change
Ahead
Developments
Suggestion
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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 / Fictioneer
Covering
Diverse
Groups
Issues
Qualifications
Range
Stories
Wide
Above
Group
Ideally
Include
Issue
Meet
Specific
Wide Range
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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.
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Science
Revolution
Two
Revolutions
Experienced
Strictly
Sticking
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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.
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Backgrounds
Bedtime
Doe
Fiction
Apply
Sf
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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, they go looking for more like it - until they get tired of it again.
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Example
Eye
People
Tired
Turns
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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.
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Jobs
Agree
Goal
Hate
Provoking
Loves
Hates
Magazine
Sets
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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.
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Desktop
Produce
Publishing
Magazine
Via
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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.
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Deny
Thinking
Way
Would Be
Background
Cultural
Reasons
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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.
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Available
Closest
International
Nations
Other Cultures
People
Thinking
Appeal
Cultures
Sf
Understandable
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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 / Fictioneer
Analog
Appreciate
Magazines
Numbers
People
Significant
Where May People
Gravitate
Market Share
Result
Significant Number
Smaller
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