What SF can do better than anything else is show us the range of our possible futures, and … - Stanley Schmidt

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Stanley Schmidt

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

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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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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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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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