Frederik Pohl Fiction Quotations

The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great).

It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

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.

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

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.

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.

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.

A lot of science fiction is science-based, and it comes about because people notice something interesting about science and work it into a story.

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

Science fiction is the very literature of change.

That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change. Science fiction is the very literature of change. In fact, it is the only such literature we have.