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.

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.

I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.

You must give permission for people to alter your thoughts. No matter how hard they knock, they can’t get into your brain unless you open the door.

The Covenant of Grace is that eternal and intimate bond of friendship that God has established with His people in the Lord Jesus Christ

you are a shadow of the person you are following or understudying

You’re not going to lose me again, ” aku berjanji. “You’ve never lost me in the first place anyway.”Dapat kurasakan dirinya tersenyum dalam rangkulanku. “And you’ve never lost me either.

If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature.

Beauty is truth - truth beauty - that is all Ye know on earth and all ye need to know.

Only air power can defeat air power. The actual elimination or even stalemating of an attacking air force can be achieved only by a superior air force.

You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.

the inferred is always more effective than the obvious.