Frederik Pohl's Blog, page 38

Let's talk for a bit about my career as an agent.
Mark Rich has a lot to say about my failings, especially my financial woes, which were considerable. A J Budrys told a funny story about them in one of the last speeches he gave, at the Heinlein Centennial, a year or [...]

Dear People:

As you know, I have a problem, and its name is Mark Rich. For some reason, and I have no clue as to what that reason is, it is quite obvious that he hates me.
Now, I don't particularly care whether someone named Mark Rich hates me, since as far as I [...]

From the blog team:

Please join us in congratulating Frederik Pohl on his 91st successful trip around the sun.
Many happy returns, Fred!

 

Illo by Kurt Erichsen, reprinted from STET 1, Nov. 1990.
 

By now you have noticed that I have left to the last one particular event, the actual Apollo 17 launch.
Actually the launch happened in the very early morning of December 7th, the third day of the cruise, after the ship had leisurely steamed down along America's east coast to the Cape, but I've left [...]

 
The Wonderful, Wonderful Voyage
So there we were, the couple hundred of us, off on our CruiseCon. Every day we would stop at a different staggeringly beautiful island. Some of us might go ashore. Most stayed on the ship, because that was where the fun was, especially at lunch.
We quickly sorted [...]

Gather round, dear friends and fellow fans, especially the kind of fans who enjoy going to science-fiction cons. I have a story to tell that will make you eat your heart out. It is a tale of the absolute jim-dandiest (sort of) science-fiction con that was ever held, although it wasn't called one. [...]

 
Want to hear a funny, and true, story about atomic bombs?
Well, there's a component that goes into them that's so secret that I have no idea what it looks like or what it does. I do know its name, but that's not really very informative. The name was made up with no relation [...]

Samuel R. Delany is a highly intelligent man who comes of a highly intelligent and educated family. His grandfather,

 
"Ain't nobody got so much money they don't want all the money that's coming to them."
—Dolly Parton