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Frederik George Pohl, Jr. war ein US-amerikanischer Science-Fiction-Autor und -Herausgeber.

✵ 26. November 1919 – 2. September 2013
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“There is a Carot's law to pain. It is measured not by absolutes, but the difference between source and ambience, and my ambience had been too safe and too pleasurable for too long to equip me for this.”

Frederik Pohl buch Beyond the Blue Event Horizon

Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (1980)
Kontext: When my mother died and left me it hurt, but I was poor and confused and used to hurting. When the love of my life, or at any rate the woman who seemed to come to be the love of my life after she was safely gone, also left me — without quite dying, because she was stuck in some awful astrophysical anomaly and far out of reach forever — that also hurt. But I was hurting all over anyway then. I wasn't used to happiness, hadn't formed the habit of it. There is a Carot's law to pain. It is measured not by absolutes, but the difference between source and ambience, and my ambience had been too safe and too pleasurable for too long to equip me for this. I was in shock.

“That’s power, Mitch, absolute power. And you know the old saying. Power ennobles. Absolute power ennobles absolutely.”

Frederik Pohl buch The Space Merchants

Quelle: The Space Merchants (1953), Chapter 4 (p. 44)

“Even money, thought Roger on the way back to his own office, is not a bad bet. Of course, it depends on the stakes.”

Frederik Pohl buch Man Plus

Quelle: Man Plus (1976), Chapter 6, “Mortal in Mortal Fear” (p. 74)

“Specialization is the goal of civilization.”

My Lady Green Sleeves (p. 88)
Platinum Pohl (2005)

“Anybody who sets out to turn the world upside down has no right to complain if he gets caught in its gears.”

Frederik Pohl buch The Space Merchants

Quelle: The Space Merchants (1953), Chapter 8 (p. 105)

“There is no greater dark than the dark between the stars.”

Frederik Pohl buch Heechee Rendezvous

Heechee Rendezvous (1984)

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