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Frederik Pohl


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

aka Edson McCann, James MacCreigh


Awards: Nebula (1993), Hugo (1986), Campbell (1985)  see all

Genres: Science Fiction
 
Series
Space Merchants
   1. The Space Merchants (1952) (with C M Kornbluth)
     aka Gravy Planet
   2. The Merchant's War (1984)
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Undersea Eden (with Jack Williamson)
   1. Undersea Quest (1954)
   2. Undersea Fleet (1955)
   3. Undersea City (1958)
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Starchild (with Jack Williamson)
   1. The Reefs of Space (1964)
   2. Starchild (1965)
   3. Rogue Star (1969)
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Saga of Cuckoo (with Jack Williamson)
   1. Farthest Star (1975)
   2. Wall Around a Star (1975)
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Heechee
   1. Gateway (1977)
   2. Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (1980)
   3. Heechee Rendezvous (1984)
   4. The Annals of the Heechee (1987)
   The Gateway Trip (1990)
   The Boy Who Would Live Forever (2004)
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Eschaton
   1. The Other End of Time (1996)
   2. The Siege of Eternity (1997)
   3. The Far Shore of Time (1999)
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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)
   The Works of Frederik Pohl (5 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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Novellas and Short Stories
   Double-Cross (1944)
   A Hitch in Time (1947)
   The Tunnel Under The World (1954)
     aka Virtual Nightmare
   The Hated (1955)
   Pythias (1958)
   Merchants of Venus (1986)
   The Day of the Boomer Dukes (2011)
   Conspiracy on Callisto (2020)
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Anthologies edited
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Anthology series
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Galaxy (with Martin H Greenberg and Joseph Olander)
   1. Galaxy (1980)
   2. Galaxy 2 (1981)
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Series contributed to
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Books containing stories by Frederik Pohl
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Black Cat Weekly #134 (2024)
(Black Cat Weekly, book 134)
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Sense of Wonder (2023)
A Century of Science Fiction
edited by
Leigh Ronald Grossman

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Awards
1993 Grand Master Award
1986 Hugo Award for Best Short Story : Fermi and Frost
1985 John W. Campbell Memorial Award : The Years of the City
1978 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel : Gateway
1978 John W. Campbell Memorial Award : Gateway
1978 Hugo Award for Best Novel : Gateway
1977 Nebula Award for Best Novel : Gateway
1976 Nebula Award for Best Novel : Man Plus
1973 Locus Award for Best Novella : The Gold at the Starbow's End
1973 Hugo Award for Best Short Story : The Meeting

Award nominations
2006 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Platinum Pohl
2005 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee) : The Boy Who Would Live Forever: A Novel of Gateway
2000 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : The Far Shore of Time
2000 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Hatching the Phoenix
1997 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : The Other End of Time
1995 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : The Voices of Heaven
1993 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Mining the Oort
1993 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Stopping at Slowyear
1993 Hugo Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Stopping at Slowyear [short story]
1992 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Outnumbering the Dead
1991 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : The World at the End of Time
1991 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : The Gateway Trip: Tales and Vignettes of the Heechee
1990 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Homegoing
1989 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Waiting for the Olympians
1989 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : The Day the Martians Came
1988 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : The Annals of the Heechee
1988 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : My Life as a Born Again Pig
1988 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Adeste Fideles
1987 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : The Coming of the Quantum Cats
1985 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Greening of Bed-Stuy
1985 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Heechee Rendezvous
1985 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Sweet Sad Queen of the Grazing Isles
1985 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Greening of Bed-Stuy
1985 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Blister
1985 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : The Years of the City
1985 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Pohlstars
1984 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Wall Around a Star
1984 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Lord of the Skies
1984 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Midas World
1984 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Servant of the People
1983 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Starburst
1982 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : The Cool War
1981 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
1981 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
1980 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Mars Masked
1980 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
1980 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Jem
1980 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Mars Masked
1980 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Jem
1980 BSFA Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
1979 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Jem
1977 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Man Plus
1977 Locus Award for Best Anthology (nominee) : Science Fiction Discoveries
1977 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee) : Man Plus
1977 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Man Plus
1976 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Growing Up in Edge City
1974 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : In the Problem Pit: And Other Stories
1973 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Shaffery Among the Immortals
1973 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Gold at Starbow's End
1973 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Merchants of Venus
1973 Hugo Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Gold at Starbow's End
1966 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Under Two Moons


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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