Happy 90th birthday, sf legend Frederik Pohl!

Bill sez, "Today, Thursday, is the 90th birthday of Fred Pohl, science fiction novelist, who has also been a literary agent, teenage magazine editor, political activist, globetrotting lecturer, and member of SF fandom."

I recently wrote a Fred Pohl tribute story, "Chicken Little," for a forthcoming Tor anthology called "Gateways" -- stories in appreciation of Fred.

Happy 90th Birthday, Frederik Pohl! (Thanks, Bill)

(Image: The Way The Future Was by Frederik Pohl., from Jim Linwood's Flickr stream)

Previously:

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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I can’t believe he’s still alive… which is awesome! Currently on book 2 of the Gateway Saga. Even though the first book is a giant emo-fest, it’s still really good (so were the two old school DOS games based off the books)

Go Pohl!!
ZDepthCharge

Happy Birthday Sir. For those interested, his blog is well worth a read:

http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com
Saskplanner

Happy Birthday indeed! Terrific writer who was one of the first SF writers I started reading in the 60s. Met him at Iquanacon 2 in Phoenix the year he won best novel for “Gateway”

Hope you have many more.
seanjjordan

The Space Merchants (co-written with the great C.M. Kornbluth) is one of my favorite sci-fi books of all time. It’s eerie how accurate it was — probably moreso than any sci-fi novel of its time.
Anonymous

Ah yes, some of us actually are old enough to have had our minds changed by this man!

Thanks for the memories.
Fred H

The Coming of the Quantum Cats. Good stuff.
Bill Higgins– Beam Jockey

In suggesting this, did I enter a link to my own blog as the URL?

Sorry, I meant to link to Fred Pohl’s blog, as ZDepthCharge did in comment #4. In particular, people are leaving greetings as comments to the birthday entry.

(Visitors to my Livejournal, to which Cory links above, will find a link to Fred’s blog there as well.)
GrantG

I wouldn’t say I’m old, but I think I’ve definitely had my mind changed by this guy. First time I read a story by him was when I read Dangerous Visions and I thought it was brilliant. I’m reading Gateway right now (strange coincidence, eh?) and so far it’s giving me just about everything I usually want from science fiction.