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My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated.

~Frederik Pohl

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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.

~Frederik Pohl

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People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.

~Frederik Pohl

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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.

~Frederik Pohl

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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.

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I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

~Frederik Pohl

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It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

~Frederik Pohl

Topics: Clear Fiction Science Science Fiction

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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).

~Frederik Pohl

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A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.

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The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: November 26th, 1919

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