Frederik Pohl's Blog, page 6

By Elizabeth Anne Hull Celebrating our first holidays at Gateway without Fred has been bittersweet. (“Gateway” is the name Fred and I gave our house.) Our Christmas decorations are a little more elaborate this year, with some extra lights to make up for the bright spot who isn’t here. At Thanksgiving last month, we all […]

Over at Paleofuture, Matt Novak turned up a letter Fred wrote for a 1987 Writers of the Future time capsule. Novak writes: “One of the predictions was from Pohl, who I contacted through email to ask about his letter to the future. There were over a dozen letters in the time capsule from people like […]

By Elizabeth Anne Hull I worry a lot, maybe more than other people, maybe more than is good for me, but I am what I am. I worry about global warming, how much carbon our atmosphere and our oceans can hold and still sustain civilization of human beings, especially. I worry about fracking and petcoke […]

  In 1944, I was an Army Air Corps weatherman attached to the 456th Bomb Group (Heavy) at its base near the tiny town of Stornara, Italy. For years the group had survived with a total weather complement of two, one major and one sergeant, but then at last the weather training school at Chanute […]

  Thank you for bearing with us. It’s a little hard to believe that it’s been over three months since Fred died. As you might imagine, we’ve had much to do since then. The blog team — which is to say Betty, Cathy, Dick and Leah — have been regrouping, sorting and pondering where to [...]

  Fred’s death was reported and mourned all over the world. Here are excerpts from just a small selection of the remembrances from fans, friends and the media. “Grand master passes through the final Gateway.” —Simon Sharwood, The Register. “On Monday, September 2nd, 2013, one of the last remaining great figures in the science fiction [...]

  “I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.” —Michel de Montaigne

Novelist, science writer, editor, literary agent, lecturer, environmentalist, historian and futurist, one of the last remaining founders of science-fiction fandom and the fabled club The Futurians, Frederik Pohl died Monday, Sept. 2, at the age of 93. “An era ends with the death of Frederik Pohl,” said Beverly Friend, emerita professor of English at Oakton [...]

  Frederik Pohl Nov. 26, 1919—Sept. 2, 2013   We’re saddened to tell his friends and readers that Fred went to the hospital in respiratory distress this morning and died this afternoon. Please stay tuned. We’re teary and shell-shocked right now, but we’ll have more news soon. And Fred left a thick file of things [...]

Welcome to Bexar County, Texas, the U.S. county with the fifth highest number of executions in the period 1876–2012. (Oh, you didn’t know? That’s San Antonio, Texas, where the 2013 Worldcon was held this weekend.)