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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.

Frederik Pohl's Popular Quotes

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 …

- Frederik Pohl

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

- Frederik Pohl

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 cigar…

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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 ta…

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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…

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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 …

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Science fiction is the very literature of change.

- Frederik Pohl

You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it.

- Frederik Pohl

For someone to be taken seriously it was valuable to have the appearance of someone who deserved to be taken seriously.

- Frederik Pohl