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Frederik Pohl Facts
Frederik Pohl Is Born On November 26, 1919
Frederik Pohl Zodiac Sign Is Sagittarius
Frederik Pohl Zodiac Symbol Is Archer
Frederik Pohl Chinese Zodiac Element Is Yin Earth
Frederik Pohl Chinese Zodiac Animal Is Sheep
Frederik Pohl Occupation Is Writer
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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. - Frederik Pohl Quotes
A lot of science fiction is science-based, and it comes about because people notice something interesting about science and work it into a story. - Frederik Pohl Quotes
A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction. - Frederik Pohl Quotes
Cosmology, nuclear physics, I do try to keep up on. They get more complex, and then some of the old theories just dont work out. - Frederik Pohl Quotes
I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writers block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette. - Frederik Pohl Quotes
I dont think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them. - Frederik Pohl Quotes
I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on peoples recollections, which change with time. - Frederik Pohl Quotes
Im doing a book, Chasing Science, about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport. - Frederik Pohl Quotes
Im pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction. - Frederik Pohl Quotes
If you dont care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldnt try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want. - Frederik Pohl Quotes
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 Quotes
Its clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations. - Frederik Pohl Quotes
My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I havent cheated. - Frederik Pohl Quotes
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 Quotes
People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research. - Frederik Pohl Quotes
Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades werent all that great). - Frederik Pohl Quotes
Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific things about rocketry and so on, really suck. - Frederik Pohl Quotes
Thats the method: restructure the world we live in in some way, then see what happens. - Frederik Pohl Quotes
The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, its like retiring. - Frederik Pohl Quotes
The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten. - Frederik Pohl Quotes
The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction. - Frederik Pohl Quotes
The way you write science fiction is: you sit down at your writing machine and you open your mind to the first thought that comes through. - Frederik Pohl Quotes
There is a method which distinguishes SF from fantasy, though a lot of the science fiction written does not go by that method, and some fantasy does. - Frederik Pohl Quotes
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. - Frederik Pohl Quotes
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