Frederik ~ohl, in American Heritage

Birth of a Genre

(Sept.-Oct. 1989), 60 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10011.
Americans today are swamped inforrna- tion and speculation about science and technology. It was not always so. Fifty years ago, there was no Carl Sagan, no Nova (indeed, no television), no Discover

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magazine. Radio and newspaper coverage of science was skimpy. Pohl, a noted sci- ence fiction writer. speculates that "a ma-

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jority of the world's leading scientists to- da...