Frederik Pohl's Blog, page 36

After Cyril's cremation, I hung around a day or two longer, because there were a couple more things I could do for the Kornbluths. Cyril had left a few unsalable and unfinished fragments, which Mary pulled out for me. I could see where he had given up on them, but I was [...]

After World War II had grabbed most of us Futurians by the scruff of the necks and flung us to various odd destinations in all sorts of unexpected parts of this planet of ours, it did, somehow get itself ended and there we were, civilians again, and back in New York. I had [...]

Cyril Kornbluth's death came as a very bad thing that had suddenly happened to all of us, but it wasn't really a surprise. Cyril's doctors had told him, definitely and explicitly, that his heart had been worn out in the Bulge. It was barely able to continue to pump blood around its system. [...]

I have one more little story that I want to tell you about our Custody Wars, and then we can leave that unpleasant subject forever. It concerns the way in which Judy was able to make people who should have been neutral declare loyalty to her.
I was working in my Fifth Avenue literary agency [...]

"Scanners Live in Vain" was the first published work by the pseudonymous Cordwainer Smith, but not of the real person behind the pseudonym, Paul Linebarger. Linebarger had published numerous nonfiction works and three novels before writing "Scanners."
Two of these, Ria and Carola, both published under the pen-name of Felix C. Forrest, were parts [...]

Sometime in the early 1950s, I was putting together Beyond the End of Time, an anthology for one of Doubleday's subsidiary imprints. That was something I liked doing, so I did it fairly often.
It was an easy thousand dollars or so, because I had already read about a zillion stories that I [...]

Well, let's not draw this out any longer than we have to. Judy asked if I wanted to buy the house back from her, I said yes, Judy went off roaming somewhere, I don't know where, and my new Significant Other, Carol Metcalf Ulf Stanton, and I began moving ourselves in.
There are a [...]

 
"It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; it is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied."
—John Stuart Mill

Unfortunately, by the time Judy's novel came out, the stresses in our marriage were growing, and Judy and I were clearly finally heading toward a (hopefully civilized) divorce.
Before we reached that point, though, we still had a few good years. It looked as though, at whatever cost to our conflicting principles, we were able [...]

Mary Byers was a