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Fiction Quotes by Frederik Pohl
- That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change. Science…
- I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.
- The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.
- In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.
- 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…
- It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.
- My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is…
- People as me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.
- A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.
- People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.
- A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.
- 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…
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