A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam. - Frederik Pohl - Quotesmemo.com

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Frederik Pohl

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

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You can't really predict the future. All you can do is invent it.

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It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

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You don't think progress goes in a straight line, do you? Do you recognize that it is an ascending, accelerating, maybe even exponential curve? It takes hell's own time to get started, but when it goes it goes like a bomb.

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That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change. Science fiction is the very literature of change. In fact, it is the only such literature we have.

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For someone to be taken seriously it was valuable to have the appearance of someone who deserved to be taken seriously.

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