Frederik Pohl's Blog

  By Elizabeth Anne Hull Nearly a year before Fred died, I wrote to a young friend who had recently become engaged in a same-sex relationship. It was in response to finding out (for the first time; I previously had no idea) that my friend was a lesbian. She told me of the difficulties she […]

Betty’s next public appearances will be at Capricon XXXVI, Feb. 11–14 in Wheeling, Ill. See her at these events: Autographing Friday, 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., Autograph Table Political Propaganda in SF Friday, 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., Birch B Science fiction and fantasy literature often has politics at the core of the story, and […]

Frederik Pohl (2009)   Ray Brandbury (1975) Does Fred get his due as an author? Here’s a 2008 interview by Liz Armstrong at Vice.com, in which she asserts he doesn’t, particularly in comparison to Waukegan’s favorite son, Ray Bradbury. She begins: Screw Ray Bradbury and all his Midwestern sci-fi fame and glory. It’s great that […]

From the blog team: This weekend, Betty is attending

From the blog team: This weekend, Betty is attending ICON 40 in Iowa City, and appearing at these events: Friday, 9 p.m. “Harassment in Fandom and Life” Saturday, 10 a.m. “Cosplay Is Not Consent” Saturday, 7 p.m. “Is There Such a Thing as Being ‘Well Read’ in This Day?”

From the blog team: Safe travels to all you fen headed for the World Science Fiction Convention, Sasquan, in Spokane this week! Betty’s winging her way there, too. (Sadly, the rest of the blog team will have to follow con highlights from Chicagoland via Facebook.) Those of you lucky enough to attend Sasquan, be sure […]

From the blog team: Heechees on TV! Fred’s 1977 Hugo-winning novel, Gateway, has moved a step closer to your TV screen. Now there are script writers: David Eick (Battlestar Galactica) and Josh Pate (Falling Skies) are collaborating on adapting the book for the proposed hour-long TV series, starting with a pilot script written by Pate […]

Attending Capricon? Come by and see Betty on Saturday: Del Rey Centennial – 10 to 11:30 a.m. – Birch A Betty, Gene Wolfe and Steven Silver discuss Lester del Rey (1915–1993). Del Rey was born one hundred years ago and is, perhaps, best known for loaning his name to a successful science-fiction publishing line. Before […]

In the 1950s, a story bearing the name of a brand-new author, Walter M. Miller, Jr., showed up in John Campbell’s magazine, now known as Analog. It was quite a good story and was soon followed by another written by the same hand and just as good. And then another. They didn’t all appear in […]