Frederik Pohl

They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#dare #risk #life

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#science-fiction #writing #science

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

— Frederik Pohl

#clearly #fiction #had #lot #reading

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

#block #cigarette #computer #did #down

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

— Frederik Pohl

#book #chasing #doing #i #pleasures

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#catholic #constitutes #fiction #i #pretty

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

#care #ellison #enough #fiction #hard

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

#fiction #future #i #magazine #might

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

— Frederik Pohl

#fiction #overlapping #populations #science #science fiction

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

#buddy #different #english #fiction #john