Source: The Way the Future Was: A Memoir
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Famous Frederik Pohl Quotes
Source: Man Plus
“My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated.”
Source: The best of Frederik Pohl
“A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.”
“What were we doing here? Traveling hundreds or thousands of light-years, to break our hearts?”
“You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it.”
Source: Venus, Inc
“You can't really predict the future. All you can do is invent it.”
“I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.”
“The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.”
Source: The best of Frederik Pohl
“It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.”
“I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.”
“People as me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.”