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Frederik Pohl


USA flag (1919 - 2013)
Husband of Elizabeth Anne Hull

aka Edson McCann, James MacCreigh


Genres: Science Fiction, Mystery
 
Novels
   Search the Sky (1954) (with C M Kornbluth)
   Gladiator-at-Law (1955) (with C M Kornbluth)
   Preferred Risk (1955) (as by Edson McCann)
   A Town Is Drowning (1955) (with C M Kornbluth)
   Presidential Year (1956) (with C M Kornbluth)
   Slave Ship (1956)
   Wolfbane (1957) (with C M Kornbluth)
   Drunkard's Walk (1960)
   A Plague of Pythons (1964)
     aka Demon in the Skull
   The Age of the Pussyfoot (1965)
   Man Plus (1976)
   Jem (1979)
   The Cool War (1981)
   Starburst (1981)
   Syzygy (1981)
   The Years of the City (1984)
   Black Star Rising (1985)
   The Coming of the Quantum Cats (1986)
   Terror (1986)
   Tales from the Planet Earth (1986) (with others)
   Chernobyl (1987)
   Narabedla, Ltd. (1988)
   Land's End (1988) (with Jack Williamson)
   The Day the Martians Came (1988)
   Homegoing (1989)
   The World at the End of Time (1990)
   Outnumbering the Dead (1990)
   The Singers of Time (1991) (with Jack Williamson)
   Stopping at Slowyear (1992)
   Mining the Oort (1992)
   Mars Plus (1994) (with Thomas T Thomas)
   The Voices of Heaven (1994)
   O Pioneer! (1998)
   The Last Theorem (2008) (with Arthur C Clarke)
   All the Lives He Led (2011)
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Collections
   Alternating Currents (1956)
   The Case Against Tomorrow (1957)
   The Knights of Arthur (1958)
   Tomorrow Times Seven (1959)
   The Man Who Ate the World (1960)
   Turn Left at Thursday (1961)
   The Wonder Effect (1962) (with C M Kornbluth)
   The Abominable Earthman (1963)
   Digits and Dastards (1966)
   Day Million (1970)
   Gold at the Starbow's End (1972)
   The Best of Frederik Pohl (1975)
   In the Problem Pit (1976)
   The Early Pohl (1976)
   Critical Mass (1977) (with C M Kornbluth)
   Survival Kit (1979)
   Before the Universe (1980) (with C M Kornbluth)
   Planets Three (1981)
   Midas World (1983)
   Pohlstars (1984)
   Bipohl (1987)
   Our Best (1987) (with C M Kornbluth)
   The Future Quartet (1994) (with others)
   Platinum Pohl (2001)
   The Hated and Other Stories (2010)
   Lest Darkness Fall & Related Stories (2011) (with others)
   The Science Fiction Collection 3 (2018) (with others)
   The 15th Science Fiction MEGAPACK (2020) (with others)
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Anthologies edited
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Chapbooks
   Merchants of Venus (1986)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Double-Cross (1944)
   A Hitch in Time (1947)
   The Hated (1955)
   The Tunnel Under The World (1955)
   Pythias (1958)
   Fermi and Frost (1985)
   The Day of the Boomer Dukes (2011)
   Conspiracy on Callisto (2020)
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Non fiction
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Omnibus editions
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Series contributed to
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Black Cat Weekly
   12. Black Cat Weekly #12 (2021) (with others)
   13. Black Cat Weekly #13 (2021) (with others)
   24. Black Cat Weekly #24 (2022) (with others)
   57. Black Cat Weekly #57 (2022) (with others)
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Anthologies containing stories by Frederik Pohl
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 6th Series (1957)
Spectrum (1962)
17 x Infinity (1963)
New Writings in SF 3 (1965)
The Weird Ones (1965)
An ABC of Science Fiction (1966)
Best SF 6 (1966)
Nebula Award Stories 2 (1966)
Dangerous Visions 1 (1967)
World's Best Science Fiction 1967 (1967)
     aka World's Best SF 3rd Series
Worlds of If 128 (1968)
Best SF: 1969 (1969)
     aka The Year's Best Science Fiction 3
Robert Silverberg's Worlds of Wonder (1969)
Worlds of If 129 (1969)
Best SF 7 (1970)
The Edge of Never (1973)
The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1973)
Nebula Award Stories 8 (1973)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 2 (1973)
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume 2B (1974)
Fellowship of the Stars (1974)
Final Stage (1974)
The Best from Galaxy, Volume III (1975)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 4 (1975)
Galaxy Science Fiction Vol. 37 No. 8 (1976)
The Best Science Fiction Stories (1977)
The Hugo Winners: Volume 3, Part 2 (1977)
To Follow a Star (1977)
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 22nd Series (1977)
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories (1978)
Science Fiction of the Fifties (1979)
Aliens! (1980)
The Golden Age of Science Fiction (1981)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12 (1983)
Top Science Fiction (1984)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 13 (1984)
Election Day 2084 (1984)
Random Access Messages of the Computer Age (1984)
The Science Fiction Weight-Loss Book (1985)
Nebula Awards 20 (1985)
The Year's Best Science Fiction Third Annual Collection (1986)
A Treasury of American Horror Stories (1986)
Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century (1987)
Robots (1989)
Inside the Funhouse (1992)
Aliens and UFO's (1993)
Invaders! (1993)
The Norton Book of Science Fiction (1993)
Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction (1994)
Omni Visions Two (1994)
The Ascent of Wonder (1994)
Worlds of Fear (1994)
Cybersex (1996)
Visions of Wonder (1996)
Intergalactic Mercenaries (1996)
The Necronomicon (1996)
The Williamson Effect (1996)
The Playboy Book of Science Fiction (1998)
My Favorite Science Fiction Story (1999)
Far Horizons (1999)
Armageddons (1999)
Bangs and Whimpers (1999)
Technohorror (1999)
The Furthest Horizon (2000)
The Year's Best Science Fiction Seventeenth Annual Collection (2000)
Genometry (2002)
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Short stories
A Life and a Half
Small Lords
The Mantle of Graag (1941) (with Harry Dockweiler and Robert A W Lowndes)
Wings of the Lightning Land (1941) (as by James MacCreigh)
Legal Rites (1950) (with Isaac Asimov)
The Little Man on the Subway (1950) (with Isaac Asimov (as by James MacCreigh) )
The Midas Plague (1954)
The Tunnel Under the World [short story] (1954)
What to Do Until the Analyst Comes (1955)
The Census Takers (1956)
Happy Birthday, Dear Jesus (1956)
The Man Who Ate the World [short story] (1956)
Survival Kit [short story] (1957)
The Snowmen (1958)
The Wizards of Pung's Corners (1958)
The Bitterest Pill (1959)
The Day the Icicle Works Closed (1959)
The Seven Deadly Virtues (1959)
The Waging of the Peace (1959)
The Quaker Cannon (1961) (with C M Kornbluth)
The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass (1962)
The Martian Star-Gazers (1962)
Punch (1963)
The Children of the Night (1964)
The Fiend (1965)
Under Two Moons (1965)Nebula Awards (nominee)
Day Million [short story] (1966)
The Day After the Day the Martians Came (1967)
Speed Trap (1967)
Rogue Star (part 2) (1968) (with Jack Williamson)
Rogue Star (part 3) (1968) (with Jack Williamson)
The Schematic Man (1969)
The Gold at Starbow's End (1972)Hugo (nominee)
Nebula Awards (nominee)
The Meeting (1972) (with C M Kornbluth)Hugo
The Merchants of Venus (1972)
Shaffery Among the Immortals (1972)Nebula Awards (nominee)
Enjoy, Enjoy (1974)
The Gift of Garigolli (1974) (with C M Kornbluth)
Mute Inglorious Tam (1974) (with C M Kornbluth)
Rem the Rememberer (1974)
We Purchased People (1974)
Growing Up in Edge City (1975)Nebula Awards (nominee)
The Mother Trip (1975)
A Day in the Life of Able Charlie (1976)
Gateway (part 1) (1976)
The Way It Was (1977)
Mars Masked (1979)Nebula Awards (nominee)
Farmer on the Dole (1982)
The High Test (1983)
Second Coming (1983)
Servant of the People (1983)Hugo (nominee)
Spending a Day at the Lottery Fair (1983)
Criticality (1984)
The Greening of Bed-Stuy (1984)Nebula Awards (nominee)
The Sweet, Sad Queen of the Grazing Isles (1984)
Fermi and Frost (1985)Hugo
Iriadeska's Martians (1986)
Adeste Fideles (1987)
At the Summit (1989)
The Reunion at the Mile-High (1989)
Stopping at Slowyear [short story] (1992)Hugo (nominee)
Redemption in the Quantum Realm (1994)
The Mayor of Mare Tranq (1996)
Hatching the Phoenix (1999)


Awards
Nebula Awards Best Novella nominee (1966) : Under Two Moons
Hugo Best Novella nominee (1973) : The Gold at Starbow's End
Hugo Best Short Story winner (1973) : The Meeting
Nebula Awards Best Novella nominee (1973) : The Gold at Starbow's End
Nebula Awards Best Short Story nominee (1973) : Shaffery Among the Immortals
Nebula Awards Best Short Story nominee (1976) : Growing Up in Edge City
Hugo Best Novel nominee (1977) : Man Plus
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (1977) : Man Plus
Nebula Awards Best Novel winner (1977) : Man Plus
Hugo Best Novel winner (1978) : Gateway
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel winner (1978) : Gateway
Nebula Awards Best Novel winner (1978) : Gateway
Hugo Best Novel nominee (1980) : Jem
Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (1980) : Jem
Nebula Awards Best Novella nominee (1980) : Mars Masked
Hugo Best Novel nominee (1981) : Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (1981) : Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
Hugo Best Short Story nominee (1984) : Servant of the People
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel winner (1985) : The Years of the City
Nebula Awards Best Novella nominee (1985) : The Greening of Bed-Stuy
Hugo Best Short Story winner (1986) : Fermi and Frost
Hugo Best Novella nominee (1993) : Stopping at Slowyear [short story]
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (2005) : The Boy Who Would Live Forever: A Novel of Gateway


Frederik Pohl recommends
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Transcendental (2013)
(Transcendental Machine, book 1)
James Gunn
"His best yet."
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For Us, the Living (2003)
Robert Heinlein
"The wonderful thing about For Us, The Living is that in it we can see the seeds of many of Robert Heinlein's great later works, starting with the first notion for 'The Roads Must Roll' and going on to cover much of his lifelong thinking on politics and society. I'm very glad I read it."
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Driftglass (1971)
Samuel R Delany
"Delany may be the only authentic genius among us."
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The World Swappers (1959)
John Brunner
"Very enjoyable, very competent."
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The Black Flame (1939)
Stanley G Weinbaum
"Stanley G. Weinbaum's name deserves to rank with those of Wells and Heinlein - and no more than a handful of others - as among the great shapers of modern science fiction. Sadly, most of the marvelous works he produced in his all too brief career were in the form of short stories and novelettes, and so are overlooked by many of today's readers. Which is all the more reason to rejoice that Tachyon Publications has brought his novel, The Black Flame, back into print for us to read - and moreover, for the first time, it is published just as Weinbaum wrote it."
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Who Goes There? (1938)
John W Campbell
"He was the greatest editor science fiction ever had. Take away John Campbell and the whole scene changes; others have contributed to the growth of modern science fiction, John caused it."

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