“There are people who never pass a certain point in their emotional development. They cannot live a normal free-and-easy, give-and-take life with… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“If a picture on the wall can remember, you remember that this is not the first time. If a picture on the… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“There are times when I sit at the center of the world, and when I know that I can reach out to… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
The future depicted in a good SF story ought to be in fact possible, or at least plausible. That means that the… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
You don't think progress goes in a straight line, do you? Do you recognize that it is an ascending, accelerating, maybe even… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“And so in that moment he completes the process of growing up. And begins the process of dying. Which is much the… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“There are people who never pass a certain point in their emotional development. They cannot live a normal free-and-easy, give-and-take life with a sexual… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“Anyway, that's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's lives. And you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“If a picture on the wall can remember, you remember that this is not the first time. If a picture on the wall can… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“Wealth ... or death. Those were the choices Gateway offered. Humans had discovered this artificial spaceport, full of working interstellar ships left behind by… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
When I sit down to the feast of life ... I'm so busy planning on how to pick up the check, and wondering what… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
For someone to be taken seriously it was valuable to have the appearance of someone who deserved to be taken seriously. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“You asked me, 'Do you call this living?" And I answer: Yes, it is exactly what I call living. And in my best hypothetical… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
