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
writing trying fiction
If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want.
population fiction clear
It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.
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.
sports book pleasure
I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.
writing people fiction
People as me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.
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.
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.
literature fiction science-fiction
Science fiction is the very literature of change.
giving-up two forever
They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind.
heart light-years break
What were we doing here? Traveling hundreds or thousands of light-years, to break our hearts?
long-ago reason profession
You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it.
cheating firsts cigarette
My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated.
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.
catholic fiction science-fiction
I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.