Who separates the dross from the gold, extracting he few bits of bullion from the tons of refuse.) It is a wonderful feeling for an editor to discover these stories. (The slush pile is the heap of unsolicited manuscripts submitted to the editor. He both plucked winners from the slush pile-and encouraged writers to reach out and create fiction of lasting value. In Fred’s case, the parameters of this world. He dropped out of high school at a tender age to edit his first magazine, then edited other magazines-and books-well into the twenty-first century.Īs John Campbell proved, an editor can change to the world. (He also opened the door to religion, which is something, I fervently believe, SF can live without.) However Fred was equal to the best of the competition, bettering them most of the time, and certainly exceeding them when it came to longevity. Tony Boucher loved good writing and saw to it that F&SF featured it whenever possible. Horace Gold at Galaxy printed admirable fiction dealing with the softer sciences. In the post-war years the SF magazines boomed. Other editors carried on his founding labors-and leading them all is Fred Pohl.
John was the editor who invented modern science fiction. I want to turn my attention to his skills as an editor, because he is right up there in the editorial pantheon-right at the top.
Other critics are on hand here to tell you about them.
Frederik Pohl is one of science fiction’s most skilled novelists-but I am not writing about his novels.
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