Frederik Pohl's Blog, page 34

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The comments in response to the post on the shooting of the Congresswoman were pretty vigorous, so we left it up top for a week to make sure everybody got his say. I think there's a lot to be learned from the discussion, and so I'll try to come back to it soon. [...]

Every newspaper in America, if not the world, gave the shooting of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the murder of half a dozen other people by a creep named Jared Loughner page 1 coverage. However. the specific tool that Loughner used for his work of killing. was less widely reported.
He got them all [...]

The characteristics of Samuel R. "Chip" Delany's novel Dhalgren. were that it was long, it was densely written, it was a hard read and it was highly, not to say obsessively, erotic. It appeared to be set in the fairly near future, and it certainly took place in an America that did not seem [...]

What postwar New York had lacked was a gathering point for the area's sf brethren (and sistren), so Lester del Rey and I created one. I invited a few of my sf friends to come and discuss the subject at my apartment at 28 Grove Street in the Village, Lester showed up with [...]

When those old boys wrote our Constitution back in the 18th century, they did quite a good job. They realized that they had no hope of agreeing on what to do about one of the worst festering sores of the thirteen colonies — slavery — so they dexterously side-stepped that issue, leaving it to [...]

 

 

As you all well know by now, one of the subjects that I spend a lot of time thinking about is politics. What I think about I write about; it's the way I'm constructed. And what I write about, I am more likely than not to publish somewhere or other, sometimes including this [...]

Jack Gillespie was the shortest of the Futurians and the most likely to be up for any fun idea anyone had.
Jack's parent were divorced. He lived with his mother, a devotee of, among other composers, Richard Wagner. His father ran a trucking service with an unwonted record of having merchandise fall off [...]

Walter Kubilius was a long-term member of the Futurians. He was also a pretty prolific (and published, that is) writer, but most of us hardly knew it, because he rarely took part in our discussions on the subject, and I'm pretty sure never got involved in our orgies of collaboration. He did quite [...]