32 Quotes by Stanley Schmidt

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.

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.

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.

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.

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