In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.
More Quotes from Frederik Pohl:
Cosmology, nuclear physics, I do try to keep up on. They get more complex, and then some of the old theories just don't work out.Frederik Pohl
I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.
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 cigarette.
Frederik Pohl
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.
Frederik Pohl
That's the method: restructure the world we live in in some way, then see what happens.
Frederik Pohl
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
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Future Quotes, Science QuotesI've never had a huge circle of friends. I can't spread myself that thin and go 100 million miles an hour all the time. I choose to give truly of myself, entirely of myself, to the people I choose to do that with, and I can't do that with everyone.
Jeremy Northam
Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!
Thomas a Kempis