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
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The way you write science fiction is: you sit down at your writing machine and you open your mind to the first thought that comes through.
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A lot of science fiction is science-based, and it comes about because people notice something interesting about science and work it into a story.
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Cosmology, nuclear physics, I do try to keep up on. They get more complex, and then some of the old theories just don't work out.
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A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.
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You can't really predict the future. All you can do is invent it.
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The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring.
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My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated.
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Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great).