tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1443515033089669860.post8888491980672993459..comments2024-03-27T13:26:32.587-07:00Comments on Mystery Fanfare: FREDERIK POHL: R.I.P.Janet Rudolphhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07395834961880172395noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1443515033089669860.post-20611664753806546292013-09-03T14:02:39.008-07:002013-09-03T14:02:39.008-07:00I agree with Anon. Back in the 50s and 60s when I ...I agree with Anon. Back in the 50s and 60s when I was an avid reader of Scifi, Pohl was one of the authors I read. It's showing my age to say that that era was the best-but we are now living in the world those authors, Asimov, Herbert, Bradbury, Heinlein, etc, predicted. It would behoove our world leaders to dip into those books for a clue as to where our earth is headed.valleryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09280002102503257310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1443515033089669860.post-87394522564771299602013-09-02T21:12:00.578-07:002013-09-02T21:12:00.578-07:00That is the saddest thing I have heard this year. ...That is the saddest thing I have heard this year. He was one of the last, and probably the last, of the old-time pulp authors. Elmore Leonard only came in at the end of the pulp era, but Pohl was in the thick of it as both a writer and an editor. His first story was published in 1940. He was important in science fiction for more than 70 years. I think it may be said of very few people that they are irreplaceable but he was one of them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com