I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.
Frederik PohlIn terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.
Frederik PohlOn this day I want to tell you about, which will be about a thousand years from now, there were a boy, a girl and a love story.
Frederik PohlThe future depicted in a good SF story ought to be in fact possible, or at least plausible. That means that the writer should be able to convince the reader (and himself) that the wonders he is describing really can come true... and that gets tricky when you take a good, hard look at the world around you.
Frederik Pohl