his Man+ books and the gateway series are among the best of SF.
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Jerry Milo Johnson <[email protected]>wrote: > > a true loss. he was an amazing writer. definitely in my top 10 sci-fi > writers of all time. > > > > On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > Got this from the writer David Brin's Google PLus posting: > > > > David Brin <https://plus.google.com/u/0/116665417191671711571> > > Shared publiclyYesterday 8:45 > > PM<https://plus.google.com/u/0/116665417191671711571/posts/bo4hV6nBFum> > > > > Science Fiction Grand Master Fred Pohl passed away today September 2, > 2013. > > Even expected, it rocks me back in sorrowful reflection. (especially > > after the recent departures of Iain Banks and Bruce Murray.) > > > > Beyond a personal sense of loss of a friend and colleague, I must note > how > > tremendous was Fred's influence on our field. Fred was always the one I > > called the "essential" science fiction author. In much the same way that > > the other "pole" of science fiction -- Poul Anderson -- was the greatest > > natural storyteller I ever knew, Fred Pohl was the SF writer who cared > most > > about the gedankenexperiment or what-if thought experiment. Fred would > > start with a question: "what if *__*?" and fill in some fascinating > > possibility. Only then the magic would ensue as he fleshed out a vivid > > world of possible consequences from that one whatif -- consequences that > > might be good, bad, and weird, but always strikingly plausible. > > > > This was especially notable in one of his most obscure works, a novel > > called "Age of the Pussyfoot," in which he explored the implications of > > Cryonics, the freezing of people for possible later tech resurrection. > As > > a side element, his future folk carried "joymakers" which we would now > > recognize as highly plausible near-future descendants of our > fast-improving > > cell-phone-plus-personal-(Siri-style)assistant - a leap of accurate > > prescience that I think may be unique. > > > > Fred won the Hugo Award six times including the 1978 Hugo for Best Novel > - > > "Gateway" - (the first Hugo I ever voted for). He tied for 1973 Best > Short > > Story Hugo for "The Meeting;" and the 1986 Best Short Story Hugo for > "Fermi > > and Frost." > > http://www.frederikpohl.com/ > > > > I had the honor of helping to get an asteroid named for Fred. I hope > > someday his asteroid will be melted down and turned into wonderful things > > by a civilization that he helped to inspire. > > > > > > -- > > Larry C. Lyons > > web: http://www.lyonsmorris.com/lyons > > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/larryclyons > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:366853 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
