Frederik Pohl

Frederik Pohl (1919-)

Science-fiction editor, author and literary agent. Pohl has won awards in nearly every job in the sci-fi field, was 1992 Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America, and is active in the World SF Movement. He lives with his wife Elizabeth Anne Hull outside Chicago, Illinois.

He is best known for the novel Gateway, which won the Hugo, Nebula and John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel, spawning various sequel novels, as well as a computer games series based on the books. His 1976 novel Man Plus also won the Nebula.

Frederik Pohl has also been the editor of the magazine Worlds of If since the '50s, garnering three Hugos for best magazine under his stewardship. He has edited several anthologies, including Galaxy, Tales from the Planet Earth, and several Star Science Fiction Stories.

His best known collaborations are The Space Merchants series with C. M. Kornbluth and The Starchild trilogy with Jack Williamson.

Most of his works are classic, golden-age sci-fi. Judging from O Pioneer!, he doesn't seem comfortable writing about computers (or any other modern-day tech) the way younger writers would. Much like Clifford Simak, his stories are about people; the futuristic setting is merely a backdrop.

His novels include:

• Man Plus (1976)
• Mars Plus (1994, with Thomas T. Thomas)
  
  The Heechee Saga
  
• Gateway (1977)
• Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (1980)
• Heechee Rendezvous (1984)
• The Annals of the Heechee (1987)
• The Gateway Trip
  
  The Eschaton Sequence
  
• The Other Side of Time (1996?)
• The Siege of Eternity (1997)
• The Far Shore of Time (1999)
  
  with C. M. Kornbluth
  
• The Space Merchants (1952) with Jack Williamson
  
• The Starchild Trilogy
• Undersea City
• Undersea Quest
• Undersea Fleet
• Wall Around A Star
• The Farthest Star
• Land's End
• The Singers of Time
  
  with Lester del Rey
  
• Preferred Risk
  
  Other miscellaneous novels:
  
• The Age of the Pussyfoot
• Drunkard's Walk
• Black Star Rising
• The Cool War (1980)
• Homegoing
• Mining the Oort
• Jem (1980)
• The Coming of the Quantum Cats (1986)
• Narabedla, Ltd. (1988)
• Pohlstars
• Starburst
• The Way the Future Was (memoir)
• The World At The End of Time
• Midas World
• Outnumbering the Dead (1990)
• O Pioneer! (1997)
• Merchant's War
• Chernobyl
• The Day The Martians Came
• Stopping at Slowyear
• The Voices of Heaven
• The Best of Frederik Pohl (edited by Lester del Rey)
• The Best of C. M. Kornbluth (editor)