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

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.

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

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.

It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises.

Its limitations are those of the physical universe: it won't let you play with some really wild ideas that aren't possible, but are fun to speculate about.

This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing fairly involved calculations.