Talk:Frederik Pohl

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As far as I know, "Frederik" is the more commonly used spelling of Pohl's first name.

-Joel Schlosberg

Indeed it is. I was just checking it myself after the main article popped up on the Recent Changes Here's a picture of one of his book covers, with his C-less name displayed on it:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312875274/qid=1010780542/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_75_1/104-4500891-1083956

Paul Drye

Moved from article: "His missing word here??? work is the biography of the Roman emperor Tiberius for the Encyclopedia Britannica."

I moved it because it looks as though someone was copying another document, and made a mistake. Vicki Rosenzweig

Missing work...

Plague of Pythons (1965)
The Day the Martians Came (novel, and also a short: see http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/pohl/pohl1.html)

"The Last Theorem" with Arthur C. Clarke. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/07/26/nosplit/boextract126.xml —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.58.129.1 (talk) 00:26, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

youth

Fred Pohl did not attend Bronx Science, nor did isaac Asimov, as was implied. According to the intro to an interview done with Pohl in Locus Magazine in 2000(http://www.locusmag.com/2000/Issues/10/Pohl.html), Pohl attended Brooklyn Tech and dropped out before graduating. He may indeed have started a lifelong friendship with Isaac Asimov during that time, but Asimov went to Boys High in Brooklyn. I reworded the paragraph accordingly. Unfortunately this misinformatin has been picked up in other places on the web - hopefully it wil be corrected.Tvoz 19:42, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I just corrected the article again. Though this time it said that both Pohl and Asimov went to Brooklyn Tech. I changed it to note that he started his friendship with Asimov as a Teenage. I think somebody may have tried to clean it up once, but got mixed up and said that they both went to the same high school. Hopefully it stays fixed. David Reiss (talk) 20:35, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Karen

Frederik Pohl did not father Karen, as stated. She was the daughter of Carol Ulf Stanton and her father was L. Jerome Stanton, whom I married after his divorce from Carol. So Karen was Fred's stepdaughter. Harriet Stanton-Leaffer Tealstar (talk) 14:33, 26 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This is confirmed by Pohl on his blog. I've removed her from the entry. 75.56.54.171 (talk) 19:58, 14 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]