An experienced slush-pile reader doesn't need more than a few seconds to see if a story has potential. You don't need to eat all of a rotten egg to determine that it's rotten.

Next quotes

• Gardner Dozois:

  I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more good sc

• Gardner Dozois:

  When I was a boy in Salem, Mass., in the 1950s, if you wanted to buy a book, you had to take a trai

• Gardner Dozois:

  What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if i

• Garet Garrett:

  Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.

• Garet Garrett:

  You do not defend a world that is already lost.

• Garet Garrett:

  Business is in itself a power.

• Garet Garrett:

  Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.

• Garet Garrett:

  Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of governm

• Garet Garrett:

  It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

• Garet Garrett:

  Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.