The Way the Future Was Author:Frederik Pohl Frederik Pohl: The Way the Future Was - a Memoir: Award-winning writer, whiz-kid editor, wide-eyed fan, pioneering anthologist and demon literary agent - Frederik Pohl's been all over the science fiction field, including a stretch as President of the Science Ficion Writers of America. Here is his story of how he got to all those places and w... more »hat it was like getting there. Pohl knew everybody who was anybody - Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, John W. Campbell, Judith Merril, Robert A. Heinlein, Gene Roddenberry - and he talks about them all. Includes 14 pages of photos.« less