ALT If the trend is away from the ... space opera type of story, what is it toward? Of late, [Astounding] has been going in rather heavily for stories about the post-atomic bombing world. They take but a dim view of the future which is probable for humanity and on this point all thinking persons, however heavy their hearts, much agree with them. But desolation and death, no matter how likely, offer unsustaining subject matter for an extended program of fiction. What will the future be like? ... It may be that at first we shall have a considerable enrichment in material things and that this enrichment will be world-wide. [SF] might, then, devote itself at least partially to an imaginative depiction of the impact of this enrichment on humanity, with increased emphasis on humor, on character, on human interest. The life and social sciences will receive more stress. I believe we shall have more domestic interiors and fewer space ships, more people and fewer robots and captured suns.