![]() Looking through the reference works The Visual Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction in my early days of reading the genre, he was there. In my case, Pohl certainly lived up to his reputation as a gentleman.įrederik Pohl is an author I’ve been aware of and reading on and off for a long time. ![]() The answer to why went something like “I wanted to write about someone who had all that power and still led a miserable life.” As to the pen name, he said he came from a poor background and a name (his mother’s maiden name was Mason) was the only inheritance he had. I asked him why he had chosen to write a biography of the Roman emperor Tiberius, to me the most interesting of the lot, and do it under the pen name Ernst Mason. Sign it he did, though, and he also answered a question from my callow 25-year-old mouth. ![]() ![]() It wasn’t even something he considered one of his better works. Not only did I have the indecency to have him sign such a book. After the talk, whose subject I have totally forgotten, I handed him my slightly battered, old second hand copy of The Age of the Pussyfoot. ![]() In November 1988, I attended a talk by Pohl at the University of Minnesota. I met Pohl once. It’s actually a pretty short story. ![]()
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