Frederik Pohl, Author . Tor $27.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-312-87527-5
Spanning the five decades of SFWA Grand Master Pohl's career, these 30 stories stand out for their gritty, straightforward style and for their insightful ideas about our political, social and ecological future. The opener, "The Merchants of...
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Frederik Pohl, Author . Tor $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1049-1
SFWA Grand Master Pohl's latest is a pure delight, miraculously combining wry adventure and compassionate satire. Since it began with the novel Gateway
(1977), Pohl's Heechee series has been among the most consistently daring of SF's...
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Frederik Pohl, Author Spectra Books $3.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-25786-1
Beginning with his classic novels of the '50s (The Space Merchants, Search the Sky, Pohl has shown a talent for constructing different scenarios and rushing his heroes through their mazes, which he repeats in this novel, an alternate-worlds...
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Frederik Pohl, Author Del Rey Books $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-345-36550-7
A huge spaceship carrying the kangaroo-like Hakh'hli society lands on Earth, where the two raceswhat two races?/earthlings and the hakh'hli/i think we can stet/pk maneuver to implement their own hidden agendas. ``As is often true of Pohl's works,...
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Frederik Pohl, Author Del Rey Books $17.95 (393p) ISBN 978-0-345-33976-8
Galactic war waged among the star-dweller Wan-To and his various sibling/selves disrupts 12 stars, one of which nourishes the nascent colony world Newmanhome, and sends that cluster accelerating away from the rest of the universe at a speed...
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Frederik Pohl, Author Tor Books $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-86711-9
Pohl (The Far Shore of Time, The Way the Future Was), recipient of the Hugo and Nebula awards for science fiction, offers a personal glimpse of his ongoing ""love affair"" with science in this affectionate exploration of the natural world. The tour...
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Frederik Pohl, Tor, $25.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2176-3
In a tired, terrorist-plagued 2079 still reeling from the aftereffects of a massive Yellowstone eruption, Brad Sheridan escapes from America's refugee camps by signing up for an overseas indenture. Chance earns him a spot working in Italy's lavish...
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Frederik Pohl, Author Tor Books $18.95 (369p) ISBN 978-0-312-93071-4
Two of SF's liveliest veterans here collaborate on a postholocaust novel that shoots off into unexpected channels. The authors portray idyllic undersea cities where ocean beds are farmed and giant squid are trained as intelligent helpmates, in...
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Frederik Pohl, Author Tor Books $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-86618-1
In the admirable conclusion to Pohl's 21st-century trilogy of alien invasion, the Eschaton Sequence (The Other End of Time; The Siege of Eternity), Federal agent Dan Dannerman survives another perilous series of other-worldly encounters before...
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Frederik Pohl, Author St. Martin's Press $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-07755-6
The question this novella poses seems like one Robert Silverberg, not Pohl, would come up with: What do you do when you're a mortal in a world of immortals? The genetic treatments that allow most everyone to live forever have failed on Rafiel, an...
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Frederik Pohl, Author Tor Books $21.95 (347p) ISBN 978-0-312-85643-4
Pohl's ( Gateway ) newest interstellar adventure inverts many of SF's hoariest old chestnuts, polishing them until they shine like the stars to which his ships fly. Barry di Hoa, an antimatter engineer who works on the moon, is almost the archetypal
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Frederik Pohl, Author Tor Books $22.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-86375-3
Two alien races battle for domination of the universe, and the Earth is caught in the middle. Federal agent Dan Dannerman thought he'd thwarted the alien invasion in Pohl's The Other End of Time (1996), the first volume of what looks to be an...
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Frederik Pohl, Author Tor Books $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-85644-1
It is late in the 21st century, and an Earth that has largely abandoned space exploration has just been contacted by intelligent extraterrestrials, who warn of other, hostile aliens on the way. At the same time, Joe-Dan Dannerman, a young undercover
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Frederik Pohl, Author Tor Books $21.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-86164-3
Evesham Giyt makes a living by poaching funds from the corporations he freelances for. One day, an ad for starting a new life on the colony world of Tupelo tempts him and his girlfriend, Rina, a former hooker, to leave Earth behind. Life on the...
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Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth. St. Martin’s Griffin, $14.99 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-250-00015-6
In 1953, Pohl and Kornbluth (1923–1958) published this wry tale of a future run by corporations, a groundbreaking narrative in its time. Mitch Courtnay is a ruthless ad-man with a prestigious job and high-class lifestyle. He also has pangs of...
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Frederik Pohl, Author, Kelly Freas, Photographer Del Rey Books $18.95 (241p) ISBN 978-0-345-36301-5
The most successfully realized universe that Pohl ( Gateway ) has created as a solo writer has been that of his Heechee series. This book contains his one pre-Gateway Heechee story, the novella ``The Merchants of Venus,'' and nine short entries...
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Arthur Charles Clarke, Author, Frederik Pohl, Author . Del Rey $27 (299p) ISBN 978-0-345-47021-8
Grand Masters Pohl (Gateway
) and the late Clarke (1917–2008, best known for 2001
) collaborated on a can't-put-down adventure that focuses on their mutual strengths: high adventure, fun characters and hard science. Sometime in the near...
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Pohl, Author, Frederik Pohl, Author Del Rey Books $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-345-32565-5
This fourth and possibly concluding volume in Pohl's popular Heechee Saga takes place 100 years after the first, Gateway, when the discovery of abandoned alien spaceships opened the galaxy to human exploration. Now allies, human and Heechee, are...
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