“The Test” was the second story written while at the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Workshop to see print. No other stories produced at that workshop were ever published. I felt that it was more important to use what I had learned to go forward and write new (hopefully) better stories rather than to patch up the flawed stories I had produced while there.<\/p>\n
“The Test,” published in the September 1982 issue of Potboiler<\/em>, was written in the form of a citizenship test given in the year 2026 to potential Earth immigrants. (And 2026 seems so much closer now than it did when I wrote the piece in 1979.) This humorous story, combined with “Brain Drain,”<\/a> was what caused Damon Knight to recommend that I stick to comedy.<\/p>\n That was the only advice of his that I did not take.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “The Test” was the second story written while at the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Workshop to see print. No other stories produced at that workshop were ever published. I felt that it was more important to use what I had learned to go forward and write new (hopefully) better stories rather than to patch […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374,"parent":13,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-373","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/373\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}