American - Writer | November 26, 1919 - September 2, 2013
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
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The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.
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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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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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I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.
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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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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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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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