The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction. Frederik Pohl More Quotes by Frederik Pohl More Quotes From Frederik Pohl In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it. Frederik Pohl magazines stories fiction My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated. Frederik Pohl cigarette cheating firsts What were we doing here? Traveling hundreds or thousands of light-years, to break our hearts? Frederik Pohl light heart years When I sit down to the feast of life ... I'm so busy planning on how to pick up the check, and wondering what the other people think of me for paying it, and wondering if I have enough money in my pocket to pay the bill, that I don't get around to eating. Frederik Pohl life people thinking I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them. Frederik Pohl scientific-method doe thinking Science fiction is the very literature of change. Frederik Pohl science-fiction literature fiction People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research. Frederik Pohl me research science people Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific things about rocketry and so on, really suck. Frederik Pohl about how things run Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great). Frederik Pohl great reading science believe A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction. Frederik Pohl been science-fiction reading science The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten. Frederik Pohl head he reading stories A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas. Frederik Pohl just-because enough time ideas You look at the world around you, and you take it apart into all its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens. Frederik Pohl start look you world That's the method: restructure the world we live in in some way, then see what happens. Frederik Pohl live see way world
