Small surprise then, that Gateway, written when he was a positively spritely 60-something bursts with energy, anger, intelligence and fierce, warm humanity. Pohl has still got the rage – a fact which seems all the more impressive considering he's 92. Look also at the numerous pieces on contemporary politics and soak up Pohl's delight at the energy of the Occupy movement and his horror at the evils of the US Republican party. The attractions range from short sharp pieces on what the demise of the clothes peg can tell us about US civilisation, to surprising factoids, to reminiscences about the Reverend Moon and arcology. It does contain plenty of intriguing notes from Pohl's career as a science fiction editor and touching tributes to the writers he knew, but like most of the best blogs, The Way The Future Blogs becomes truly interesting when it veers away from its purported subject to whatever else appeals to its author's questing and curious intelligence. The Way The Future Blogs is ostensibly an online memoir.
Pohl won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 2010, for his blog, “The Way the Future Blogs.To get a sense of the appeal of Frederik Pohl's 1977 Hugo winner, Gateway, have a look at what the author is up to at the moment. The Science Fiction Writers of America named Pohl its 12th recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award in 1993 and he was inducted by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 1998, its third class of two dead and two living writers. He won four Hugo and three Nebula Awards®. It was a finalist for three other years’ best novel awards. National Book Award in the one-year category Science Fiction. He won the Campbell Memorial Award again for the 1984 collection of novellas Years of the City, one of two repeat winners during the first forty years. His 1977 novel Gateway won four “year’s best novel” awards: the Hugo voted by convention participants, the Locus voted by magazine subscribers, the Nebula voted by American science fiction writers, and the juried academic John W. (Novem– September 2, 2013) was an American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning more than seventy-five years-from his first published work, the 1937 poem “Elegy to a Dead Satellite: Luna,” to the 2011 novel All the Lives He Led and articles and essays published in 2012.įrom about 1959 until 1969, Pohl edited Galaxy and its sister magazine If the latter won three successive annual Hugo Awards as the year’s best professional magazine.
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