“ . . . the aggregate amount I paid out as an editor to everybody, over a period of thirty years from 1939 to 1969, as editor of Astonishing Stories and Super Science Stories, as editor of the Star series of original anthologies for Ballantine, as editor of more than a dozen reprint anthologies over that period and finally as editor of Galaxy, If, Worlds of Tomorrow, and others for nearly a decade—the total of checks, for all of them put together, to every contributor, is probably about [a] quarter of a million.”
—Frederik Pohl, 1979
“Almost everybody in science fiction tends to stay in science fiction.”
—Henry Morrison, 1978