The Way the Future Was (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Frederik Pohl
- First Published: 1978
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: 1919-1977
- Setting: Primarily New York City
- Principal Characters: Frederik Pohl
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Authors or writers, New York City, Books, Novelists, Reading, Science fiction, Work or workers, Clubs, social
Form and Content
Growing up in a poor family in the 1920’s and 1930’s meant that Frederik Pohl had to find entertainment in his surroundings—most of his youth was spent in Brooklyn—and in vicarious adventure. Pohl learned to read at an early age and soon discovered the pulp magazines of the period. These offered a wide variety of adventure and romance and, despite some atrocious writing, occasionally had good stories by capable writers. Secondhand copies, sold for a nickel or dime in used-book stores, were often within boys’ budgets, and a chance encounter...
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