"That's really what SF is all about, you……" — 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 fiction is the very literature of change. In fact, it is the only such literature we have."
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Frederik Pohl
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30 Quotes by Frederik Pohl
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What were we doing here? Traveling hundreds or thousands of light-years, to break our hearts?
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You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it.
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You can't really predict the future. All you can do is invent it.
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I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning,…
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I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change…
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The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do…
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The future depicted in a good SF story ought to be in fact possible, or at least plausible. That means…
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I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.
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The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.
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You don't think progress goes in a straight line, do you? Do you recognize that it is an ascending, accelerating,…
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In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that…
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If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write…
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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