We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

As J. B. S. Haldane said when asked what evidence might contradict evolution, 'Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian.

The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas.

You look at the world around you, and you take it apart into all its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens.

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

Quotes by Frederik Pohl

Written By Frederik Pohl

Written By Frederik Pohl

Written By Frederik Pohl

Written By Frederik Pohl

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