Frederik Pohl has died today (Sept. 2nd) at age 93. His granddaughter reported the news via Twitter this afternoon. Read Jo Walton’s account of learning of the news during Worldcon, the annual assemblage of the science fiction and fantasy publishing community.
On learning of the death of Frederik Pohl
Richard Matheson, 1926-2013
Science Fiction Pioneer and Grand Master Jack Vance, 1916-2013
The Man Responsible For All of Your Favorite Monsters, Ray Harryhausen, 1920-2013
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There was a time I had an attic filled with thousands of SF books. I used to call it “My Retirement Plan”. Some were signed first editions (Had a Isaac Asimov) but mostly I mean that I intended to spend my retirement rereading all the classic Science Fiction I loved growing up. Then we had this little fire.
Unfortunately, the public library isn’t as good a substitute as it once was. They have become more like the (missing) bookstores filled only with the more recent editions. They now hold yearly booksales to get rid of books a few years old.
I waited for the future and the future is crap.
On the North River 