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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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.Stanley Schmidt
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.
Stanley Schmidt
Also, much science fiction is not actually set in any existing place or culture, so it's more or less equally foreign to everybody.
Stanley Schmidt
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.
Stanley Schmidt
This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing fairly involved calculations.
Stanley Schmidt
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.
Stanley Schmidt
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