There’s an editor for you. They’re all the same. At first they’re all honey and sweet talk, with those long alcoholic lunches and blue-sky conversati… - Frederik Pohl

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There’s an editor for you.
They’re all the same. At first they’re all honey and sweet talk, with those long alcoholic lunches and blue-sky conversation about million-copy printings while they wheedle you into signing the contract. Then they turn nasty. They want the actual book delivered. When they don’t get it, or when the censors say they can’t print it, then there isn’t any more sweet talk and all the conversation is about how the aediles will escort you to debtors’ prison.

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About Frederik Pohl

Frederik George Pohl, Jr. (November 26, 1919 – September 2, 2013) was an award-winning science fiction writer and editor, with a career spanning over seventy-five years.

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Birth Name: Frederik George Pohl, Jr.
Alternative Names: Frederik Pohl II Edson McCann Jordan Park Elton V. Andrews Paul Fleur Lee Gregor Warren F. Howard Scott Mariner Ernst Mason James McCreigh Dirk Wilson Donald Stacy
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