Frederik Pohl Quotes About Science Fiction

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

  Frederik Pohl

  Fiction Stories, Able, Jam

• 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.

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  Real, Fiction, Literature

• I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

  Frederik Pohl

  Catholic, Fiction, Science Fiction

• The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

  Frederik Pohl

  Fiction, Dissection, Method

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

  Frederik Pohl

  Writing, People, Research

• Science fiction is the very literature of change.

  Frederik Pohl

  Fiction, Literature, Science Fiction

• In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.

  Frederik Pohl

  Fiction, Stories, Magazines

• 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

  Writing, Trying, Rays

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

  Frederik Pohl

  Population, Fiction, Clear

• I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.

  Frederik Pohl

  Thinking, Doe, Scientific Method

• 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

  Different, Fiction, Literature

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