Stories for Tomorrow Quotes

“Why was it, he wondered, that all these stories envisaged technological marvels by the bushel, but seemed to assume that social structure and culture wouldn't change in over four centuries? (Chad Oliver, "The Ant and the Eye")”
― William Milligan Sloane, Stories for Tomorrow: an Anthology of Modern Science Fiction

“With only the dimmest memories of a high-school course or two in general science, they find themselves confronting dialog which seems largely derived from the frontiers of theoretical physics and a group of characters who might, conceivably, enjoy chatting with Albert Einstein, but certainly no one less advanced. A few pages of all this obscurity and the hapless first reader ... closes the magazine or book ... and abandons the field to the children ...”
― William Milligan Sloane, Stories for Tomorrow: an Anthology of Modern Science Fiction