Frederik Pohl's Blog, page 24

That headline, of course, is meant to be sarcastic. You see, we do have a problem. Our Ma Dell upright created it, all by itself, and all of the wizardry of our ordinarily undefeatable Guru, Dick Smith, has been unable to it restore it to civilized behavior. So please tell me [...]

Sense of Wonder
A Century of Science Fiction
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Although he was less avid a writer than most of the rest of the Futurians, Jack Robins (or Rubinson) once wrote a play: "The Ivory Power," now unfortunately long lost. It wasn't a normal "story" play. It was more like one of those WPA docudramas that had become popular in the early '30s, [...]

This isn't exactly political, it's more about morality. Well, political morality, specifically our policies on immigration.
What I would like to add to the discussion is a poem, or anyway part of a poem, by a woman named Emma Lazarus. It was written for a dedication ceremony to the Statue of Liberty, and a [...]

"Most deaths from building collapse in earthquakes occur in countries with high scores for corruption."
—Roger Bilham (University of Colorado) and Nicholas Ambraseys (Imperial College London).


Clearly there are other factors — poverty for one, proximity to an ocean with the potential for a tsunami and imperiled nuclear plants for another, both as in Japan 2011. [...]

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Mike Darwin's response to my piece on the loss of that very good man, Bob Ettinger, caught me completely unaware. I am grateful to you for repeating the offer of a free freeze, Mike, just as I am grateful to the people who sometimes tell me that they're going to pray for me. [...]

There were a couple of things about Hannes Bok that we didn't mention last time, but they were important to him. One was his love of music. Indeed, when young Wayne Woodard, as he had been named by his parents, started working out the name he wanted to live his life under, the [...]

The Futurians had any number of members who won awards for writing, but we only had one who earned his Hugo by the beauty of the things he drew and painted. That was Wayne Woodard, as his parents called him when he was born in 1914, though he became better known to [...]

As best I remember, Al Norton was in charge of:

2 air-wars
3 Westerns
2 sports
2 crime
1 sf (Super Science Stories)
1 superhero (G-8 and His Battle Aces)

 
At some time during my furlough, Astonishing Stories had breathed its last, done in by the 10¢ cover price. We didn't have any horror or love pulps — happily, because we [...]