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I'm going to get this quote wrong, but there was an author (Clarke, Bradbury, Asimov? one of those folks) who said something along the lines of "We were lucky t

I'm going to get this quote wrong, but there was an author (Clarke, Bradbury, Asimov? one of those folks) who said something along the lines of "We were lucky to be the last generation to be able to read all science fiction that was published. But considering that 80% of what is written is garbage, perhaps we weren't so lucky"

mkl 3y ago
Arthur C Clarke said at least the first half: https://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/05/books/the-science-fiction-boom-a-shared-passion-for-what-if.html https://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/05/books/the-science-fiction... > "We old-timers," Arthur C. Clarke remarked recently, "were able to accomplish something unique. We were the last generation able to read everything in the science-fiction field. No one will ever be able to do that again."