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| Frederick Pohl The Way the Future Was |
Just recently heard of the passing of Frederick Pohl who died at the beginning of this month.
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| One of his most famous works |
One of the giants and Founding Fathers of Science Fiction and was in on the ground floor of sci-fi and worked as a prolific writer and editor from the 30's right into the 90's writing some of the early sci-fi classic's and mentored many of the now great SF writers both during his tenure at Astonishing Stories and as a writer collaborating with many including Lestor Del Ray, L Sprague de Camp and Arthur C Clark.
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| The novel which introduced me to his work along with Chris Foss' artwork |
Much of his work, though based in a sci-fi context, was firmly dealing with issues of the contemporary world form consumerism to over complexity and built-in obsolescence in manufacturing and beyond.
The man and his work will be missed by many.
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