Stanley Schmidt Citas

• Resista la tentación de utilizar un estilo deslumbrante para ocultar una debilidad de fondo.

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  Writing, Temptation, Style

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• No confunda un buen montaje con una conclusión satisfactoria: muchos escritores principiantes terminan sus historias cuando la verdadera historia está a punto de comenzar.

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  Real, Mistake, 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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  Believe, Answers, Surprise

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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.

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  Depressing, Way, Ugly

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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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  Thinking, Would Be, Way

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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, Two, Revolution

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• A lo largo de toda nuestra historia nos hemos acostumbrado a mangonear [a los animales] en función de nuestros deseos y necesidades, sin tener demasiado en cuenta los suyos.

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  Animal, Needs, Want

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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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  Doe, Fiction, Bedtime

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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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  Character, Responsibility, Action

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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, Realizing, Range

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• Idealmente, me gustaría que cada número incluyera un grupo diverso de historias que cumplan los requisitos esbozados anteriormente, pero que cubran una amplia gama de temas y sabores específicos.

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  Issues, Groups, Covering

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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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  Thinking, Other Cultures, People

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• Esto significa que debo prestar mucha atención a la redacción, pero también al trasfondo científico, lo que a veces implica hacer cálculos bastante complicados.

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  Writing, Mean, Attention

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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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  Tired, Eye, People

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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.

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  Numbers, People, Appreciate

  "Analog Editor Stanley Schmidt Finds the Future of Magazines to be Astounding". Interview with Michael A. Burstein, www.mabfan.com. July 23, 2001.

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• Sin embargo, puede que la sugerencia de que el ritmo del cambio tecnológico intimida a los escritores tenga algo de cierto: ha sido terriblemente difícil adelantarse a los avances reales.

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  Real, Technological Change, Suggestions

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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, Hate, Goal

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• Sus limitaciones son las del universo físico: no te permitirá jugar con algunas ideas realmente descabelladas que no son posibles, pero con las que es divertido especular.

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  Fun, Play, Ideas

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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.

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  Fashion, Falling In Love, Thinking

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• intricately and intriguingly woven, lots of fun, and extremely thought provoking.

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  Fun, Thought Provoking, Woven

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