Quotes by Frederik Pohl

About Frederik Pohl:

Frederik George Pohl, Jr. was an American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning more than seventy-five years—from his first published work, the 1937 poem "Elegy to a Dead Satellite: Luna", to the 2011 novel All the Lives He Led and articles and essays published in 2012.
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A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.

Frederik Pohl

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

The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

Frederik Pohl

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

Frederik Pohl

I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette.

Frederik Pohl

Author Bio

  • NameFrederik Pohl
  • DescriptionAmerican science fiction writer and editor
  • AliasesFrederik George Pohl, Jr.; Frederik Pohl II; more than 10 pseudonyms
  • BornNovember 26, 1919
  • DiedSeptember 2, 2013
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionEditor; Novelist; Writer
  • AwardsNebula Award; National Book Award