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A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

~ Frederik Pohl

Frederik Pohl Sci Fi Science Fiction Writing

I perceived quite early that I was a reader, and most of the people I came into contact with were not. It made a barrier. What they wanted to talk about were things they had eaten, touched, or done. What I wanted to talk about was what I had read.

~ Frederik Pohl

Frederik Pohl Bibliophiles Books Reading

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.

~ Frederik Pohl

Frederik Pohl Choice Dare Risk

For twenty years and more the whole planet had been bombed, raped, ravaged, and gouged by people whose fury had so exceeded their judgment that the only thing they could think of to do to express their discontent was to kill somebody.

~ Frederik Pohl

Frederik Pohl Irrationality Rage Violence War

The bump of ego on his skull had swollen large, so he saw the whole world in terms of what it could give him.

~ Frederik Pohl

Frederik Pohl Ego

The robots came bearing a gift and the name of it was Plenty.Plenty is a habit-forming drug. You do not cut the dosage down. You kick it if you can; you stop the dose entirely. But the convulsions that follow may wreck the body entirely.

~ Frederik Pohl

Frederik Pohl Consumerism Destructive Abundance Irony Satire

The FDA just ordered them off the market. The glaze is supposed to be poison—provided you drink at least forty cups of tea out of one of them every day of your life for twenty years.

~ Frederik Pohl

Frederik Pohl Paternalism Safety

People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.

~ Frederik Pohl

Frederik Pohl Research Me People

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

Frederik Pohl Want Care You
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