Frederik Pohl
Frederik Pohl
Frederik George Pohl, Jr.was an American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning more than seventy-five years—from his first published work, the 1937 poem "Elegy to a Dead Satellite: Luna", to the 2011 novel All the Lives He Led and articles and essays published in 2012...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth26 November 1919
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten.
mean looks stories
The future depicted in a good SF story ought to be in fact possible, or at least plausible. That means that the writer should be able to convince the reader (and himself) that the wonders he is describing really can come true... and that gets tricky when you take a good, hard look at the world around you.
people fantasy advertising
Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's lives. And you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad.
girl boys years
On this day I want to tell you about, which will be about a thousand years from now, there were a boy, a girl and a love story.
sports book pleasure
I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.
real fiction literature
That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change. Science fiction is the very literature of change. In fact, it is the only such literature we have.
clearly science
A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.
thinking doe scientific-method
I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.
life diploma graduates
That's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.
That's the method: restructure the world we live in in some way, then see what happens.
life thinking people
When I sit down to the feast of life ... I'm so busy planning on how to pick up the check, and wondering what the other people think of me for paying it, and wondering if I have enough money in my pocket to pay the bill, that I don't get around to eating.