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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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).
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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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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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There is a method which distinguishes SF from fantasy, though a lot of the science fiction written does not go by that method, and some fantasy does.
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My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.
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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.
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It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.
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People as me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.
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Science fiction is the very literature of change.
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I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.
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The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.
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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.
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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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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.