SOURCE: "Frederik Pohl," in Speaking of Science Fiction: The Paul Walker Interviews, Luna Publications, 1978, pp. 129-43.

In the following interview, which was conducted in September-October 1970 and first published in Moebius Trip in 1971, Pohl discusses such topics as his writing and editing careers, his collaboration with Cyril M. Kornbluth, and the effects of technology on literature and society.

[Walker]: On your Grand Tour of 2527, in The Age of the Pussyfoot, you suggest (if I understand you correctly) that for the future we may expect even more of today. Capitalism moves ever onward in its ever-changing guises, motivated by man's desire for material goods. Socialist idealism gives way to the "corporate state, " and the wonders of a Gernsbacchanalian technology are bent to the frivolous demands of a middle-class society. Is this to be, sir?

[Pohl]: First off, Paul, we're not going to get along very well if you ask me...