What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer.

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Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story.

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Don't drag in television. It is worked to death and there are so many better appliances you can use in your stories.

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The clouds,--the only birds that never sleep.

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The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.

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