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RIP Frederik Pohl, the man who transformed science fiction
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| September 2, 2013
| Annalee Newitz
Posted on 09/02/2013 3:56:30 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: Borges; Perdogg
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posted on
09/02/2013 3:57:06 PM PDT
by
EveningStar
("What color is the sky in your world?" -- Frasier Crane)
To: EveningStar
RIP. He edited lots of the pulps I read as a kid.
/johnny
To: EveningStar
I didn’t realize that he was still alive. I read just about all his work as it came out, and have the first editions on my bookshelves.
I especially liked his collaborations with Jack Williamson and Cyril Kornbluth.
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posted on
09/02/2013 4:00:45 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: EveningStar
Well, crud.
I haven't read much of his work, but I did read his entire "Heechee" series and enjoyed it.
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posted on
09/02/2013 4:03:57 PM PDT
by
Kip Russell
(Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors -- and miss. ---Robert A. Heinlein)
To: EveningStar
Dang. The world just became a sadder, duller and dumber place.
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posted on
09/02/2013 4:03:57 PM PDT
by
null and void
(I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
To: EveningStar
Oh man this sucks. He is my favorite scifi author...
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posted on
09/02/2013 4:05:02 PM PDT
by
Mad Dawgg
(If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
To: Cicero
“The Space Merchants” was one of the first science fiction books I read.
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posted on
09/02/2013 4:05:30 PM PDT
by
aomagrat
(Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
To: null and void
To: EveningStar
Good thing that the genre has been redefined as a place to find harlequin romances in space featuring love triangles with the dead and animals and our intrepid heroine. Or, dang, lesbian love triangles in space - now that’s sci fi!
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posted on
09/02/2013 4:07:42 PM PDT
by
MichiganConservative
(T. Jefferson's warning come true: THIS morning you woke up a slave to government and central bankers)
To: Cicero
"I didn’t realize that he was still alive." He was one cool guy. "IF" you wrote him a well crafted and neatly typed (or written) letter he would answer in kind. Especially if the subject of your letter was a query about some of the science he wrote about. When I was a teenager I wrote him a letter that my science teacher prompted me to write and got an answer. (My teacher made me re-write it several times until he was sure it was free of mistakes)
Sadly I left it at my Mom's house and it got ruined when her basement flooded.
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posted on
09/02/2013 4:12:29 PM PDT
by
Mad Dawgg
(If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
To: MichiganConservative
The Vaults of Permian Love* was actually pretty good, I was initially turned off by what I thought was a gratuitous lesbian angle, but it turned out to actually be a relevant part of the story.
*Not a Frederik Pohl tale!
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posted on
09/02/2013 4:14:03 PM PDT
by
null and void
(I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
To: EveningStar
Knew he was frail as I haven’t seen him at the Chicago conventions in the last couple of years.
I like to think of him in Fiddlers Green with Heinlein, Asimov, Tucker, Ackermann and others I loved as writers that have passed on. I am sure he is having wonderful adventure now.
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posted on
09/02/2013 4:19:06 PM PDT
by
LauraJean
(sometimes I win sometimes I donate to the equine benevolent society)
To: EveningStar
His blog-- last updated just a few days ago-- is
here.
To: Mad Dawgg
"IF" you wrote him a well crafted and neatly typed (or written) letter he would answer in kind. Niven does/did the same. I did send an SASE.
/johnny
To: EveningStar
When do you know you are old? When the obituaries start being of interest.
RIP old friend, I’ll be seeing you along with all of those others who have made my life what it is. Godspeed to your eternal rest.
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posted on
09/02/2013 4:29:33 PM PDT
by
SES1066
(To expect courteous government is insanity!)
To: EveningStar; Aevery_Freeman; ShadowAce; Jack Hydrazine; Altariel; nuancey; Thorliveshere; ...
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posted on
09/02/2013 4:30:05 PM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Cruz-Paul 2016)
To: null and void
>>Dang. The world just became a sadder, duller and dumber place.<<
One of the last of the Giants of SF. Maybe THE last?
Just damn!
I don’t know if Pohl studied under Campbell but he was of that generation: the ones who defined SF.
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posted on
09/02/2013 4:32:41 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. (Yogi Berra))
To: EveningStar
Folksinger Pete Singer and beatnik poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti were also born in 1919. And Olivia de Haviland, 1916 and her sister Joan Fontaine, 1917 — these folks are still around, which is pretty amazing.
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posted on
09/02/2013 4:33:15 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(21st century. I'm not a fan.)
To: EveningStar
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