March 2010
The Way the Future Blogs, an online memoir by science fiction writer Frederik Pohl » Blog Archive » Isaac, Part 5 in our continuing series
by night.kameThe publishing of science fiction in book form in the U.S. had just begun, and I wanted Isaac to get in on it. The trouble was that Doubleday, the most interesting of the hardcover houses, had decided that they wanted new works, not reprinted serials taken from the pulps. (It was a dumb decision, and later, when they realized what they were missing out on and reversed it they made a fortune out of those old Foundation and robot books.)
Quand l'éditeur ne juge plus les oeuvres mais se contente de fixer une politique, il échoue dans son travail.