It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises. Stanley Schmidt answerbigpresumptuous Change image and share on social
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 depresseasyfuture Change image and share on social
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 catcheyepeople Change image and share on social
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 avoidfuturegood Change image and share on social
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 analogaudiencefind share on social
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 angloapplybackground Change image and share on social
