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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.

~Frederik Pohl

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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.

~Frederik Pohl

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The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

~Frederik Pohl

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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.

~Frederik Pohl

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That's the method: restructure the world we live in in some way, then see what happens.

~Frederik Pohl

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In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.

~Frederik Pohl

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I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

~Frederik Pohl

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I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.

~Frederik Pohl

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The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring.

~Frederik Pohl

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I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette.

~Frederik Pohl

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: November 26th, 1919

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