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RIP Frederik Pohl, the man who transformed science fiction
io9 ^ | September 2, 2013 | Annalee Newitz

Posted on 09/02/2013 3:56:30 PM PDT by EveningStar

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1 posted on 09/02/2013 3:56:31 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: Borges; Perdogg

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2 posted on 09/02/2013 3:57:06 PM PDT by EveningStar ("What color is the sky in your world?" -- Frasier Crane)
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To: EveningStar
RIP. He edited lots of the pulps I read as a kid.

/johnny

3 posted on 09/02/2013 3:59:52 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: EveningStar

I didn’t realize that he was still alive. I read just about all his work as it came out, and have the first editions on my bookshelves.

I especially liked his collaborations with Jack Williamson and Cyril Kornbluth.


4 posted on 09/02/2013 4:00:45 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: EveningStar
Well, crud.

I haven't read much of his work, but I did read his entire "Heechee" series and enjoyed it.

5 posted on 09/02/2013 4:03:57 PM PDT by Kip Russell (Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors -- and miss. ---Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: EveningStar

Dang. The world just became a sadder, duller and dumber place.


6 posted on 09/02/2013 4:03:57 PM PDT by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: EveningStar

Oh man this sucks. He is my favorite scifi author...


7 posted on 09/02/2013 4:05:02 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Cicero

“The Space Merchants” was one of the first science fiction books I read.


8 posted on 09/02/2013 4:05:30 PM PDT by aomagrat (Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
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To: null and void

Freeper books?! :p)

http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&field-author=Bern%20Pearson&page=1&rh=n%3A133140011%2Cp_27%3ABern%20Pearson


9 posted on 09/02/2013 4:06:01 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: EveningStar

Good thing that the genre has been redefined as a place to find harlequin romances in space featuring love triangles with the dead and animals and our intrepid heroine. Or, dang, lesbian love triangles in space - now that’s sci fi!


10 posted on 09/02/2013 4:07:42 PM PDT by MichiganConservative (T. Jefferson's warning come true: THIS morning you woke up a slave to government and central bankers)
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"I didn’t realize that he was still alive."

He was one cool guy. "IF" you wrote him a well crafted and neatly typed (or written) letter he would answer in kind. Especially if the subject of your letter was a query about some of the science he wrote about. When I was a teenager I wrote him a letter that my science teacher prompted me to write and got an answer. (My teacher made me re-write it several times until he was sure it was free of mistakes)

Sadly I left it at my Mom's house and it got ruined when her basement flooded.

11 posted on 09/02/2013 4:12:29 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: MichiganConservative
The Vaults of Permian Love* was actually pretty good, I was initially turned off by what I thought was a gratuitous lesbian angle, but it turned out to actually be a relevant part of the story.

*Not a Frederik Pohl tale!

12 posted on 09/02/2013 4:14:03 PM PDT by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: EveningStar

Knew he was frail as I haven’t seen him at the Chicago conventions in the last couple of years.
I like to think of him in Fiddlers Green with Heinlein, Asimov, Tucker, Ackermann and others I loved as writers that have passed on. I am sure he is having wonderful adventure now.


13 posted on 09/02/2013 4:19:06 PM PDT by LauraJean (sometimes I win sometimes I donate to the equine benevolent society)
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To: EveningStar
His blog-- last updated just a few days ago-- is here.
14 posted on 09/02/2013 4:19:26 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Mad Dawgg
"IF" you wrote him a well crafted and neatly typed (or written) letter he would answer in kind.

Niven does/did the same. I did send an SASE.

/johnny

15 posted on 09/02/2013 4:22:29 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: EveningStar

When do you know you are old? When the obituaries start being of interest.

RIP old friend, I’ll be seeing you along with all of those others who have made my life what it is. Godspeed to your eternal rest.


16 posted on 09/02/2013 4:29:33 PM PDT by SES1066 (To expect courteous government is insanity!)
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To: EveningStar; Aevery_Freeman; ShadowAce; Jack Hydrazine; Altariel; nuancey; Thorliveshere; ...

ping


17 posted on 09/02/2013 4:30:05 PM PDT by Perdogg (Cruz-Paul 2016)
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>>Dang. The world just became a sadder, duller and dumber place.<<

One of the last of the Giants of SF. Maybe THE last?

Just damn!

I don’t know if Pohl studied under Campbell but he was of that generation: the ones who defined SF.


18 posted on 09/02/2013 4:32:41 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. (Yogi Berra))
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To: EveningStar

Folksinger Pete Singer and beatnik poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti were also born in 1919. And Olivia de Haviland, 1916 and her sister Joan Fontaine, 1917 — these folks are still around, which is pretty amazing.


19 posted on 09/02/2013 4:33:15 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (21st century. I'm not a fan.)
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To: EveningStar

HEY! Who just bought all four of my novels?! Thanks!

http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&field-author=Bern%20Pearson&page=1&rh=n%3A133140011%2Cp_27%3ABern%20Pearson


20 posted on 09/02/2013 4:36:42 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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