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
heart light-years break
What were we doing here? Traveling hundreds or thousands of light-years, to break our hearts?
nuclear theories work
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.
fiction machine mind open science sit
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.
fiction notice people science work
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.
fiction literature different
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.
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.
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.