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To: Iron Munro

Clarke, Asimov, Heinlein, now Bradbury. Who’s left? Frederick Pohl ... But he must be 100 by now. Even Lester Del Ray and Andre Norton are gone.

Dim hopes for sci fi’s future.


44 posted on 06/06/2012 9:06:07 AM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: IronJack

Frederik Pohl is 92, Jack Vance is 95. There is a very recent interview with both of them interacting together on star ship sofa I believe. Vance is still mad that Pohl edited his intros to the chapters of Demon Princes! Pretty funny. Poul Anderson and Frank Herbert are both gone.

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51 posted on 06/06/2012 9:24:40 AM PDT by Ransomed
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Frederick Pohl ... But he must be 100 by now.

I'm guessing about ninety-plus. Had a nice email chat with him about 3 years ago, where the subject was symphony orchestras. I found out that he had attended my hometown symphony, and I clued him in to a recording they had recently released.

He's married to a younger woman who is (or was a few years ago) a professor of, IIRC, English at a suburban Chicago college.

72 posted on 06/06/2012 3:12:43 PM PDT by Erasmus (BHO: New supreme leader of the homey rollin' empire.)
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