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.

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.