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“Wh-who are you? And what do you want?”
“Joseph Burns, a poor but honest newspaperman.” He considered for a moment. “Well, poor, anyway.”
Of All Possible Worlds (1955)
Irving Bommer looked like a man who had gone down into the Valley of the Shadow and had seen much more there to fear than such picayune things as Evil.
Of All Possible Worlds (1955)
“It's a rough war, isn't it?”
I smiled back. “Rough? Why, if you're not careful, they tell me, you can get killed in it.”
Of All Possible Worlds (1955)
The human mind is lit by an elemental sense of wonder, a probing, restless curiosity that is our primate heritage and that from its beginnings has sought a knowledge, some knowledge, of the future. To satisfy that need there has come into being a massive and thoroughly modern creation, science fiction, the literature of extrapolative, industrial man.
Of All Possible Worlds (1955)
And there, right there, is the area in which science fiction leads the literary side of its life. It is the job of the science-fiction writer to take the utterly fantastic, if need be, and make it seem as real as a copy of today's tabloid newspaper folded to the sports section. To the extent that he succeeds in this he is a good science-fiction writer, and to the extent that he fails to make the story believable he is a bad one, be it ever so full of faster-than-light gimmicks and futuristic individuals with triple brains and mechanical genitalia.
Of All Possible Worlds (1955)