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.

Also in the 1970s Pohl reemerged as a novel writer in his own right with books such as Man Plus and the Heechee series. For his 1979 novel Jem Pohl won a U. He fathered four children: Ann (m.

From about 1959 until 1969 Pohl edited Galaxy and its sister magazine If; the latter won three successive annual Hugo Awards as the year's best professional magazine. Clarke and Andre Norton.