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).

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.