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.

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.