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Frederik Pohl

 
  • Date of Birth: November 26, 1919
  • Place of Birth:
  • Gender: Male
  • Nationality: American
  • Official Website: http://www.frederikpohl.com/
  • Genres: Science Fiction

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Frederik George Pohl, Jr. (born November 26, 1919) is a American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning over sixty years. From about 1959 until 1969, Pohl edited Galaxy magazine and its sister magazine if, winning the Hugo for if three years in a row. His writing also won him three Hugos and multiple Nebula Awards. He became a Nebula Grand Master in 1993.

Bibliography

Series

Undersea Trilogy (with Jack Williamson)

1. Undersea Quest (1954)
2. Undersea Fleet (1956)
3. Undersea City (1958)

Heechee

* The Merchants of Venus (1972) (novella in The Gold at the Starbow's End)

1. Gateway (1977) (winner of the Hugo Award and Nebula Award)
2. Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (1980)
3. Heechee Rendezvous (1984)
4. Annals of the Heechee (1987)
5. The Gateway Trip (1990)

* The Boy Who Would Live Forever: A Novel of Gateway (2004)

Eschaton trilogy

1. The Other End of Time (1996)
2. The Siege of Eternity (1997)
3. The Far Shore of Time (1999)

Mars

* Man Plus (1975) (Winner of Nebula Award)
* Mars Plus (1994) (with Thomas T. Thomas)

Saga of Cuckoo (with Jack Williamson)

1. Farthest Star (1975)
2. Wall Around A Star (1983)

Starchild Trilogy (with Jack Williamson)

1. The Reefs of Space (1964)
2. Starchild (1965)
3. Rogue Star (1969)

Space Merchants

1. The Space Merchants (1953) (with Cyril M. Kornbluth)
2. The Merchants' War (1984) (published together with The Space Merchants under the title VENUS, INC.)

Other novels (not part of a series)

* Search the Sky (1954) (with Cyril M. Kornbluth)
* Gladiator-At-Law (1955) (with Cyril M. Kornbluth)
* Preferred Risk (1955) (with Lester Del Rey)
* Slave Ship (1956)
* Wolfbane (1957) (with Cyril M. Kornbluth)
* Presidential Year (1958) (with Cyril M. Kornbluth)
* Drunkard's Walk (1960)
* A Plague of Pythons (1964) (also called Demon in the Skull)
* The Age of the Pussyfoot (1965)
* Jem (1980)
* The Cool War (1981)
* Syzygy (1981)
* Starburst (1982)
* The Years of the City (1984)
* Black Star Rising (1985)
* The Coming of the Quantum Cats (1986)
* Terror (1986)
* Chernobyl (1987)
* Land's End (1988) (with Jack Williamson)
* The Day The Martians Came (1988)
* Narabedla Ltd. (1988)
* Homegoing (1989)
* The World at the End of Time (1990)
* Outnumbering the Dead (1990)
* Stopping at Slowyear (1991)
* The Singers of Time (1991) (with Jack Wiliamson)
* Mining the Oort (1992)
* The Voices of Heaven (1994)
* O Pioneer! (1998)

Collections

* Alternating Currents (1956)
* The Case Against Tomorrow (1957)
* Tomorrow Times Seven (1959)
* The Man Who Ate the World (1960)
* Turn Left At Thursday (1961)
* The Wonder Effect (1962) (with Cyril M. Kornbluth)
* The Abominable Earthman (1963)
* Digits and Dastards (1966)
* The Frederik Pohl Omnibus (1966)
* Day Million (1970)
* The Best of Frederik Pohl (1975)
* In The Problem Pit (1976)
* The Early Pohl (1976):
'Elegy for a Dead Planet: Luna,' 1937, (writing as Elton Andrews)
'The Dweller in the Ice,' 1940, (writing as James MacCreigh)
'The King's Eye,' 1940, (writing as James MacCreigh)
'It's a Young World,' 1940, (writing as James MacCreigh)
'Daughters of Eternity,' 1940, (writing as James MacCreigh)
'Earth, Farewell!,' 1940, (writing as James MacCreigh)
'Conspiracy on Callisto,' 1943, (writing as James MacCreigh)
'Highwayman of the Void,' 1943, (writing under Dirk Wylie's name)
'Double-Cross,' 1943, (writing as James MacCreigh)
* Survival Kit (1979)
* This Is My Best (1981)
* Planets Three, 1982 (a collection of 3 novellas written as James MacCreigh):
'Figurehead'
'Red Moon of Danger'
'Donovan Had a Dream'
* Midas World (1983)
* Pohlstars (1984)
'The Sweet, Sad Queen of the Grazing Isles'
'The High Test', 1983
'Spending a Day at the Lottery Fair', 1983
'Second Coming', 1983
'Enjoy, Enjoy', 1974
'Growing Up in Edge City', 1975
'We Purchased People', 1974
'Rem the Rememberer', 1974
'The Mother Trip', 1975
'A Day in the Life of Able Charlie', 1976
'The Way It Was', 1977
'The Wizard-Masters of Peng-Shi Angle (né The Wizards of Pung's Corners)', original story 1958, retranslation 1984.
* BiPohl (1987)
* Our Best: The Best of Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth (1987) (with C.M. Kornbluth)
* Platinum Pohl (2005)

Autobiography

* The Way the Future Was (1978)

Non-fiction

* Tiberius (1960) (writing as Ernst Mason)
* Practical Politics 1972 (1971)
* Our Angry Earth (1991) (with Isaac Asimov)
* Chasing Science: Science as Spectator Sport (2000)


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