Quotes by Frederik Pohl - Page 1

Science fiction is the very literature of change.
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Fiction
Literature
Science Fiction
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I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.
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Catholic
Fiction
Science Fiction
Science Science Fiction Fiction
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The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.
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Dissection
Fiction
Method
Reconstruction
Science Fiction
Science Science Fiction Fiction
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You can't really predict the future. All you can do is invent it.
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The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten.
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Astonishing
Ten
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It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.
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Clear
Fiction
Population
Science Fiction
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My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated.
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Cheated
Cheating
Cigarette
Firsts
Always
Thought
First
Still
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A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.
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Science Fiction
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That's the method: restructure the world we live in in some way, then see what happens.
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Method
Restructure
World Way Live
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I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.
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Sports
Book
Chasing
Pleasure
Sport
Spectator
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What were we doing here? Traveling hundreds or thousands of light-years, to break our hearts?
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Heart
Light
Years
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A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.
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Able
Fiction Stories
Jam
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People as me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.
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People
Research
Writing
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People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.
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Research
Science Fiction
Science Me People
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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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Long Ago
Profession
Reason
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In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.
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Fiction
Magazines
Science Fiction
Stories
Future Science Science Fiction
Magazine
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For someone to be taken seriously it was valuable to have the appearance of someone who deserved to be taken seriously.
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Appearance
Taken
Valuable
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Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's lives. And you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad.
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Advertising
Fantasy
People
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On this day I want to tell you about, which will be about a thousand years from now, there were a boy, a girl and a love story.
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Girl
Boys
Years
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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 with time.
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People
Thinking
Writing
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The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring.
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Decided
Development
Four
New Day
Pages
Retiring
Life Me Day
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They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind.
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Choices
Giving Up
Two
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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, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette.
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Morning
Block
Cigarette
Computer
Lit
Sat
Typewriters
Typewriter
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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 all that great).
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Cambridge
Grades
Science Fiction
Hawking
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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 you get for a diploma is, you die.
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Life
Diploma
Graduates
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Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific things about rocketry and so on, really suck.
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Computer
Program
Author
Computer Program
Construct
Planet
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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 hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want.
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Don't Care
Rays
Science Fiction
Trying
Writing
Interested
Ray
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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.
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Buddy
Different
Fiction
Literature
Method
Science Fiction
According
John
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You look at the world around you, and you take it apart into all its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens.
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Components
Apart
Plug
Throw
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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, maybe even exponential curve? It takes hell's own time to get started, but when it goes it goes like a bomb.
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Science
Curves
Thinking
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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: 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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Fiction
Literature
Real
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A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas.
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Becoming
One Time
Date
Fraction
Scientists
Sf
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I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.
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Doe
Method
Methodical
Relate
Scientific Method
Thinking
Fictional
Neither
Practiced
Scientific
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When I sit down to the feast of life ... I'm so busy planning on how to pick up the check, and wondering what the other people think of me for paying it, and wondering if I have enough money in my pocket to pay the bill, that I don't get around to eating.
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Life
People
Thinking
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The future depicted in a good SF story ought to be in fact possible, or at least plausible. That means that the writer should be able to convince the reader (and himself) that the wonders he is describing really can come true... and that gets tricky when you take a good, hard look at the world around you.
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Looks
Mean
Stories
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