Quote - Well, that's Mr. Pohl's position, which, to be honest, does seem to have been designed to cut the ground from under his competitors.    It never makes much sense to allow a practitioner to lay down the ground rules of practice.   Pohl stands in the same line of charlatans as Alban Berg, Picasso, Schoenberg and, well, Kubrick and QT    Schoenberg tried to dictate how music should be written;  Pohl wanted to set parameters for SF.  

 

I wouldn't call Picasso a charlatan.  Opinionated, obnoxious, controversial beyond a doubt but not a charlatan.  He could talk the talk and walk the walk

Kubrick was too clever for his own good and not as clever as he thought he was.  In plain terms, he was a pretentious middle class twat.   Did some good stuff, though.  Not as much as he thought he did but nevertheless, some good stuff.

Don't have much of an opinion about Pohl. Read a couple of his novels which were ok but hardly earth shattering.   And... that's about it.

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