Stanley Schmidt
Insight for Writing: Don't Merely Dazzle
“Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance.”
WIKI: Stanley Albert Schmidt (born March 7, 1944) is an American science fiction author. Between 1978 and 2012 he served as editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine. … His first publication was “A Flash of Darkness” (Analog, September 1968); his first novel was “The Sins of the Fathers” (serialized in Analog from November 1973 to January 1974), and his first book was Newton and the Quasi-Apple in 1975. … He was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor every year from 1980 through 2006 (its final year), and for the Hugo Award for Best Editor Short Form every year from 2007 (its first year) through 2013.
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Published July 12, 2019
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