Frederik Pohl's Blog, page 28

Well, maybe it isn't exactly your Bible, because we've got a multiple ethnic world these days, but probably you know which Bible we're talking about. Or what Rev. Jennifer Wright Knust is talking about, anyway, because we've borrowed some extracts from her new book, Unprotected Texts.
So here are four questions for you, all [...]

Keith P. Graham asks if I will do a post on The Trap Door Spiders, a New York City luncheon club for sf writers and people like them, but I have to recuse myself. Although Wikipedia appears to think I was a member, I never was.
The TDS was started by Fletcher Pratt in 1945, [...]

Keith P. Graham asks if I will do a post on The Trap Door Spiders, a New York City luncheon club for sf writers and people like them, but I have to recuse myself. Although Wikipedia appears to think I was a member, I never was.
The TDS was started by Fletcher Pratt in 1945, [...]

 

 
As Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor, notes, the richest Americans already pay lower tax rates than the middle class. That doesn't stop many of them from cheating on their taxes.
 
Do you want to know one reason why the very, very rich can get away without paying taxes like the rest of us? Read [...]

A 90-year-old person named Sidney Glassberg died in Chicago this spring, and although I never met him I love him. He did what all of us should try to do: ease our dying for the ones we leave behind by making a joke of it. According to the death notice in the paper, [...]

 
Terry Jeeves was one of the fans who started it all happening — helped to form the British Science Fiction Society, published his own fanzine for 43 years, was always in the thick of whatever was going on in sf in the UK. We'll miss him, and so will everyone he ever met. [...]

I used the word "movie" in conjunction with the word "Gateway" the other day, and several quick-witted blog readers wrote in to ask what was going to happen with a film for my novel of that title. I shouldn't have said anything, because it's a long way from anything tangible, but I was kind [...]

We do apologize for forgetting to announce the winners of the drawing for copies of Gateways, the best book ever written as a birthday present for me, but here are the names:



Sophie Gousset, Brest, France


Chris LaHatte, Wellington, New Zealand


Simon Groom, Romford, United Kingdom


Duane Davis, Lancaster, California, USA


Mike Goldberg, Skokie, Illinois, USA


Bjorn Fridgeir Bjornsson, Reykjavik, Iceland

If you made a right turn at Jane Littell's door you found yourself in the business wing of the company's offices, where people took care of distribution, billing, advertising and all the other grubbier parts of the publishing business. At least I suppose that's what they did. In the four years I worked [...]

 
"I think of laughter as the sound of comprehension."
—Tom Stoppard