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The original SF writing article

posted by Zed on March 21 2002 08:22

Hugo Gernsback's writing advice for Scientific Detective Monthly from the 1930 Writer's Digest.

With the advancement of science, the criminal-in-fact is turning scientific as well as the criminal-in-fiction. Therefore we prophesy that Scientific Detective fiction will supersede all other types. In fact, the ordinary gangster and detective story will be relegated into the background in a very few years. It is worth your while, then, to study this new development carefully, devoting all your time and efforts towards turning out good stories of this type. Literary history is now in the making, and the pioneers in this field will reap large rewards.

(Via Schism Matrix)

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