The bump of ego on his skull had swollen large, so he saw the whole world in terms of what it could give him.

The bump of ego on his skull had swollen large, so he saw the whole world in terms of what it could give him.

Frederik Pohl
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If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want.

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People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.

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They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind.

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The FDA just ordered them off the market. The glaze is supposed to be poison—provided you drink at least forty cups of tea out of one of them every day of your life for twenty years.

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I perceived quite early that I was a reader, and most of the people I came into contact with were not. It made a barrier. What they wanted to talk about were things they had eaten, touched, or done. What I wanted to talk about was what I had read.

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