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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You look at the world around you, and you take it apart into all its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens.
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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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Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific things about rocketry and so on, really suck.
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A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas.
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A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.
The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten.
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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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People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.
That's the method: restructure the world we live in in some way, then see what happens.
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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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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.