“No one should be a freelance writer who isn’t naturally irresponsible” — John W. Campbell in a letter to Ben Bova.
Beginning to see why he ended up chief instigator of golden age sci-fi.
Another evil twin resonance point since I too encourage people to be irresponsible.
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I think the best gauntlet he ever threw was saying to V Vinge about amplified human intelligence: "Sorry — you can't write this story. Neither can anyone else” and at the same time asking writers to write him a creature that thinks as well or better than a man, but not like a man
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