A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.
Frederik PohlTag: writing science-fiction sci-fi
You asked me, 'Do you call this living?" And I answer: Yes, it is exactly what I call living. And in my best hypothetical sense, I envy it very much.
Frederik PohlWhen you spend weeks on end close to another person, so close that you know every hiccough, every smell and every scratch on the skin, you either come out of it hating each other or so deep in each other's gut that you can't find a way out. Klara and I were both. Our little love affair had turned into a Siamese-twin relationship. There wasn't any romance in it. There wasn't room enough between us for romance to occur. And yet I knew every inch of Klara, every pore, and every thought, far better than I'd known my own mother. And in the same way: from the womb out. I was surrounded by Klara
Frederik PohlShe's thinking I betrayed her, and she's thinking it now! I can't live with that.
Frederik PohlWhat were we doing here? Traveling hundreds or thousands of light-years, to break our hearts?
Frederik PohlAnyway, that's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.
Frederik PohlTag: cynical-humor
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