I recommend to you a story called “One Was Stubborn,” I wrote one time many, many, many years ago, 1939, in a society where everybody had everything done for them. This was intensely unpopular, this story. It was intensely unpopular with the editor. He really writhed over it, but he had a hole in the […]
One Was Stubborn
Lecture: Last Lecture of Advanced Course, Camden 1953, Reviewing Students' Ability to Process
I recommend to you a story called “One Was Stubborn,” I wrote one time many, many, many years ago, 1939, in a society where everybody had everything done for them. This was intensely unpopular, this story. It was intensely unpopular with the editor. He really writhed over it, but he had a hole in the […]
Lecture: Chart of Attitudes: Rising Scale Processing
A lot of your bad science fiction is written by boys who.. they were just bad the whole track, but they weren’t very bad. The guys who really write the good stuff, and so forth, boy were they horrible! What are you laughing about? Yeah-yeah. I never wrote any science fiction myself. People think I’ve […]