{"id":2601,"date":"2010-03-14T17:25:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T17:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2601"},"modified":"2010-03-14T17:25:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T17:25:33","slug":"notes_from_a_ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2601","title":{"rendered":"Notes From A Master"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frederik Pohl is one of the few surviving members of science fiction&#8217;s Golden Age elite and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaythefutureblogs.com\/\">only one to maintain a blog<\/a>. I spent some time perusing it today and it&#8217;s filled with wonderful stories about his friendship with Isaac Asimov, the rapid rise of the science fiction publishing scene, and his own career as a writer and futurist. Pohl is 90 years old and still writes with clarity and verve. Some SF writers are cranks and misanthropes, but Pohl&#8217;s blogging has the same compassion and wit that made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gateway-Heechee-Saga-Frederik-Pohl\/dp\/0345475836\/ref=pd_sim_b_4\"><i>Gateway<\/i><\/a> one of my favorite books. I hope he continues posting for a good long while. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=600\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frederik Pohl is one of the few surviving members of science fiction&#8217;s Golden Age elite and the only one to maintain a blog. I spent some time perusing it today and it&#8217;s filled with wonderful stories about his friendship with Isaac Asimov, the rapid rise of the science fiction publishing scene, and his own career <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2601' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-FX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}