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Frederik Pohl
American
Writer
Born:
Nov 26
,
1919
Died:
Sep 2
,
2013
About
Fiction
Me
Reading
Science
Science Fiction
Related authors:
Dale Carnegie
Denis Waitley
Dr. Seuss
H. L. Mencken
Napoleon Hill
Ray Bradbury
W. E. B. Du Bois
William Arthur Ward
If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want.
Frederik Pohl
You
Science
Try
Care
Own
Enough
About
Write
Ray
Ray Bradbury
Like
Science Fiction
dont Care
Want
Fiction
Interested
Much
Hard
People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.
Frederik Pohl
Me
Science
People
Research
Never
Science Fiction
Answer
How
Any
Fiction
Ask
I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.
Frederik Pohl
Science
Book
Chasing
Pleasures
About
Sport
Doing
Spectator
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).
Frederik Pohl
Great
Science
First
Reading
Believe
Spent
Hawking
He
Most
Couple
Because
Science Fiction
Said
Cambridge
Were
His
Years
Grades
Fiction
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
Time
Enough
Later
One Time
Some
Date
Part
Ideas
Liked
Most
Read
Another
Because
Becoming
Scientists
Lot
May
Just
Just Because
Either
Interesting
Large
Played
Early
Fraction
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
Buy
Future
Science
Would
Magazine
Take
Terms
Science Fiction
Fiction
Stories
Place
Might
I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.
Frederik Pohl
Science
Pretty
About
Catholic
Science Fiction
Fiction
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, it's like retiring.
Frederik Pohl
Life
Day
Me
My Life
Big
Development
Longer
New
Retiring
Like
Decided
Turned
Pages
Four
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