Consider the true picture. Think of myriads of tiny bubbles, very sparsely scattered, rising through a vast black sea. We rule some of the bubbles. Of the waters we know nothing.

And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.

The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.

The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim

Anything that can go wrong, will

SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.

The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.