Comments on: Frederik Pohl, blogger http://boingboing.net/2009/01/20/frederik-pohl-blogge.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:45:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: MMusick http://boingboing.net/2009/01/20/frederik-pohl-blogge.html#comment-384043 MMusick Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-384043 Just checked my RSS feed and found this while listening to Obama's inauguration speech. I work for Vice Magazine, and in last month's Fiction Issue, we featured an interview with Mr. Pohl. I think you'd find it worthwhile. Cheers... <a href="http://www.viceland.com/int/v15n12/htdocs/frederick-pohl-424.php?source=db" rel="nofollow">Science Fiction's Hidden Hero: Frederik Pohl Did It All, First</a> Just checked my RSS feed and found this while listening to Obama’s inauguration speech. I work for Vice Magazine, and in last month’s Fiction Issue, we featured an interview with Mr. Pohl. I think you’d find it worthwhile. Cheers…

Science Fiction’s Hidden Hero: Frederik Pohl Did It All, First

]]> By: Fred H http://boingboing.net/2009/01/20/frederik-pohl-blogge.html#comment-384111 Fred H Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-384111 Cool! I loved THE COMING OF THE QUANTUM CATS, and am currently reading THE DAY THE MARTIANS CAME. I will check both links out. Cool! I loved THE COMING OF THE QUANTUM CATS, and am currently reading THE DAY THE MARTIANS CAME. I will check both links out.

]]> By: bjacques http://boingboing.net/2009/01/20/frederik-pohl-blogge.html#comment-384381 bjacques Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-384381 Man Plus. I read a bit in Fantasy & Science Fiction. I'm still trying to wrap my head around Fred Pohl staying at the same hotel that Sid 'n' Nancy would years later. It's not so hard on second thought. Long may he wave. Man Plus. I read a bit in Fantasy & Science Fiction. I’m still trying to wrap my head around Fred Pohl staying at the same hotel that Sid ‘n’ Nancy would years later.

It’s not so hard on second thought.

Long may he wave.

]]> By: EH http://boingboing.net/2009/01/20/frederik-pohl-blogge.html#comment-384134 EH Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-384134 #1 So, was Mr. Pohl's attire that day a "do" or a "don't"? #1 So, was Mr. Pohl’s attire that day a “do” or a “don’t”?

]]> By: tvkirby http://boingboing.net/2009/01/20/frederik-pohl-blogge.html#comment-384648 tvkirby Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-384648 Wow! I have great memories of random elevator conversations with him in the 80s and early 90s at various cons. A legend and a fantastic author. I'll definitely be following his blog!!! Wow!

I have great memories of random elevator conversations with him in the 80s and early 90s at various cons.

A legend and a fantastic author. I’ll definitely be following his blog!!!

]]> By: pinehead http://boingboing.net/2009/01/20/frederik-pohl-blogge.html#comment-384163 pinehead Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-384163 Pohl is a name I haven't heard in awhile. Despite not being too interested in sci-fi stuff, I did chance upon his Heechee saga and ended up reading it all. I can still vaguely remember checking-out <i>Gateway</i> from the school library, then going through all of them, one by one. Pohl is an excellent author, and it's cool that he would write a blog and connect with his audience like this. Pohl is a name I haven’t heard in awhile. Despite not being too interested in sci-fi stuff, I did chance upon his Heechee saga and ended up reading it all. I can still vaguely remember checking-out Gateway from the school library, then going through all of them, one by one. Pohl is an excellent author, and it’s cool that he would write a blog and connect with his audience like this.

]]> By: Keeper of the Lantern http://boingboing.net/2009/01/20/frederik-pohl-blogge.html#comment-384192 Keeper of the Lantern Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-384192 Huh? Frederick Pohl is ALIVE? Soon you'll be telling me Abe Vigoda's alive. (There's a little Firefox plugin somewhere that gives you a constant readout telling you AV's status as a living being.) Huh? Frederick Pohl is ALIVE?
Soon you’ll be telling me Abe Vigoda’s alive.
(There’s a little Firefox plugin somewhere that gives you a constant readout telling you AV’s status as a living being.)

]]> By: Stefan Jones http://boingboing.net/2009/01/20/frederik-pohl-blogge.html#comment-384204 Stefan Jones Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-384204 Pohl is best known for the Gateway stuff, but y'all should check out the books he wrote with Cyril Kornbluth. And man, also, especially, the short-short "Day Million." A posthuman love story between a cyborg space pilot and a prenatally transgendered otter-woman, with arch commentary about the rate of progress. Last time I met Pohl, I suggested that "Day Million" was the first SF story about the Singularity. Then I had to explain the Singularity. He thought it was utter horseshit. Pohl is best known for the Gateway stuff, but y’all should check out the books he wrote with Cyril Kornbluth.

And man, also, especially, the short-short “Day Million.” A posthuman love story between a cyborg space pilot and a prenatally transgendered otter-woman, with arch commentary about the rate of progress.

Last time I met Pohl, I suggested that “Day Million” was the first SF story about the Singularity.

Then I had to explain the Singularity.

He thought it was utter horseshit.

]]> By: Takuan http://boingboing.net/2009/01/20/frederik-pohl-blogge.html#comment-384729 Takuan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-384729 more apt lyrics than you realize, good night all, tomorrow is a new dawn. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UuzW710af8 more apt lyrics than you realize, good night all, tomorrow is a new dawn.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UuzW710af8

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