Frederik Pohl Quotes

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

I let myself flop - so gently, so slowly - into my one real chair and tried to make myself understan...

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

They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...an...

I was worried about sex," he went on. "But you know what, Sulie? It's like being told I can't have a...

For twenty years and more the whole planet had been bombed, raped, ravaged, and gouged by people who...

The robots came bearing a gift and the name of it was "Plenty."Plenty is a habit-forming drug. You d...

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

The FDA just ordered them off the market. The glaze is supposed to be poison—provided you drink at l...

If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write...

I perceived quite early that I was a reader, and most of the people I came into contact with were no...