A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.
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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.Frederik Pohl
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.
Frederik Pohl
My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated.
Frederik Pohl
The way you write science fiction is you sit down at your writing machine and you open your mind to the first thought that comes through.
Frederik Pohl
There is a method which distinguishes SF from fantasy, though a lot of the science fiction written does not go by that method, and some fantasy does.
Frederik Pohl
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.
Frederik Pohl
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