Frederik Pohl's Blog, page 3

He was English, the fellow in the lobby. He had come from London the day before to see some kindred enlightened souls in Cincinnati, Ohio. Now he was on his way to certain other centers of adepts before reaching the Grand Canyon focal point of the Harmonic Convergence. (Not, thank God, on my flight.) This […]

By Elizabeth Anne Hull Tax season is a good time to assess your net worth. Recently, I read that over half of the members of Congress of both houses are millionaires, which implies that they’re rich and so cannot possibly understand the problems of the average person, much less those living below the poverty line. […]

A book tour is wearing enough all by itself. I didn’t need any extra aggravation. Unfortunately, I couldn’t avoid it. I could tell something was up right away. It wasn’t only that the famous Harmonic Convergence of 1987 converged with my book tour for Chernobyl. My very first radio show of the tour was on […]

Man Bites Dog? By Elizabeth Anne Hull As you probably know, the “glass ceiling” has suffered yet another crack, as Janet Yellen has started work as the first woman to head the Federal Reserve Bank. That means that the two most significant leadership positions in global money are both occupied (word chosen carefully) by women. […]

By Elizabeth Anne Hull Plans are under way for a celebration in memory of Fred, to be held August 2, 2014, at the Wojcek Conference Center at William Rainey Harper College in Palatine, Illinois. Please save the date and join us if you can. If you’d like to participate in the program, please let me […]

From the blog team: We’re thrilled to tell you that Fred’s novel Gateway may soon be on your TV screen. Entertainment One Television (Hell on Wheels) in collaboration with De Laurentiis Co. (Dune

In 1987, I spent some weeks pushing my (then) new book, Chernobyl. It was an unusual tour mdash; only six states, but a total of four countries mdash; and even more hectic than most of its kind, partly because some of it took place in and around the famous Harmonic Convergence that year. I’ve said […]

By Elizabeth Anne Hull By Elizabeth Anne Hull Let’s you and him fight! One of the most effective strategies in battle is to pit factions of opposition against each other. Politicians do it so that opponents stop bothering the people in power, or the people who want power. They view government — whether local, state, […]

From the blog team: We see that sf critic Dave Truesdale, well-known gadfly, is once again stirring up controversy. But we have long memories, and recall when Truesdale was just another neofan, pubbing his fanzine and gushing about the pros he met. Truesdale recently reprinted an interview with Fred from his early zine, Tangent. See […]