“See, there’s a bit of a problem here. It’s true that editors are always begging for something new and different, but if you’re dumb enough to try to give it to them they don’t recognize it. When they ask for ‘different,’ what they mean is something right down the good old ‘different’ groove.”

—  Frederik Pohl

Waiting for the Olympians (p. 272)
Platinum Pohl (2005)

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