Don Sakers
6 Quotations from Don Sakers
| fan fiction n. | 2017 The Reference Library in Analog Science Fiction & Fact Sept.–Oct. 198/1 Some readers step in and write their own stories in familiar universes. This is fanfiction (aka fanfic), and the internet is filled with billions of words of it. |
| genre science fiction n. | 2018 The Reference Library in Analog Science Fiction & Fact Jan.–Feb. 194/2 Prior to the emergence of genre science fiction in the late 1920s, Australia had its own share of what we might consider ‘proto-SF’…. Genre SF emerged in American pulp magazines during the late 1920s and early 1930s. |
| New Wave n. | 2020 Reference Library in Analog Science Fiction & Fact May–June 200/2 Sometimes there’s a chicken-and-egg question of whether changing audience made SF change, or changes in SF brought in new readers. With the ‘New Wave’ of the 1960s/1970s era, there’s no question: the youth-centered counterculture movement, which started in Britain and moved to the U.S., definitely preceded SF’s move toward more diversity in characters, themes, and literary experimentation. Please note, I’m not implying that greedy SF writers looked around and said, ‘Ah, here’s a new social trend we can exploit.’ The pioneers of the New Wave, just like those of all the other shifts, were predominantly writers new in the field, bringing with them the sensibilities of the particular social evolution. |
| sf n. | 2021 Reference Library in Analog Science Fiction & Fact July–Aug. 199/2 Authors of far future SF must tread a thin line: Exceed the weirdness budget and lose readers, or use too little weirdness and bore them. |
| sf-ish adj. | 2015 Reference Library in Analog Science Fiction & Fact Oct. 105/2 At one end of the scale would be unquestioned SF titles like[…]Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series. At the other end would be….oh, I don't know, what's the least SF-ish book ever published? The Toledo, Ohio phone book? |
| xenopsychology n. | 2012 Reference Library in Analog Science Fiction & Fact Nov. 105/1 Surely the most interesting examples of xenopsychology, though, come from an entirely different approach. Here, the author begins with specifics of alien biology and environment, and works from there to develop and deduce psychology. |