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 magazine created by a shortage, by namely me, and so he bought it and he published it. And this -- this story, this story, of course, is the kid of all science fiction. Naturally, everything is … [Read more...] about Lecture: Reviewing Students’ Ability to Process (1953)
One Was Stubborn
Lecture: Chart Of Attitudes Rising Scale Processing (1952)
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 written it. That’s right. It doesn’t classify as science fiction. There’s ‘One Was Stubborn’. There’s a story which you would be vastly amused about in this class. It appeared in Astounding … [Read more...] about Lecture: Chart Of Attitudes Rising Scale Processing (1952)