"People as me how I do research for……" — Frederik Pohl

"People as me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research."

— Frederik Pohl

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30 Quotes by Frederik Pohl

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That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in:…
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.
You can't really predict the future. All you can do is invent it.
I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning,…
I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change…
The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do…
The future depicted in a good SF story ought to be in fact possible, or at least plausible. That means…
I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.
The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.
You don't think progress goes in a straight line, do you? Do you recognize that it is an ascending, accelerating,…
In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that…

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