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Frederik Pohl


Born
in New York City, New York, The United States
November 26, 1919

Died
September 02, 2013

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Genre
Science Fiction & Fantasy


Frederik George Pohl, Jr. was an American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning over seventy 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.

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Betty’s Advice to the Lovelorn

  By Elizabeth Anne Hull Nearly a year before Fred died, I wrote to a young friend who had recently become engaged in a same-sex relationship. It was in response to finding out (for the first time; I previously had no idea) that my friend was a lesbian. She told me of the difficulties she […]
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Average rating: 3.87 · 141,872 ratings · 8,797 reviews · 1,151 distinct works • Similar authors
Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
4.06 avg rating — 47,176 ratings — published 1977 — 13 editions
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Beyond the Blue Event Horiz...
3.95 avg rating — 13,849 ratings — published 1980 — 61 editions
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The Space Merchants (The Sp...
3.83 avg rating — 11,166 ratings — published 1952 — 11 editions
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Man Plus (Man Plus #1)
3.75 avg rating — 8,675 ratings — published 1976 — 64 editions
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Heechee Rendezvous (Heechee...
3.84 avg rating — 7,655 ratings — published 1984 — 49 editions
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The Annals of the Heechee (...
3.74 avg rating — 4,439 ratings — published 1987 — 36 editions
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Jem
3.58 avg rating — 2,954 ratings — published 1979 — 52 editions
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The World at the End of Time
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,342 ratings — published 1990
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Series by Frederik Pohl

Gateway Beyond the Blue Event Horizon Heechee Rendezvous The Annals of the Heechee The Gateway Trip The Boy Who Would Live Forever
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The Space Merchants The Merchants' War
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Man Plus Mars Plus
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The Other End of Time The Siege of Eternity The Far Shore of Time
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The Reefs of Space Starchild
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“A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.”
― Frederik Pohl
tags: sci-fi, science-fiction, writing
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“They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind.”
― Frederik Pohl, Gateway
tags: choice, dare, risk
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“Anyway, that's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.”
― Frederik Pohl, Gateway
tags: cynical-humor
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MAY SCIENCE FICTION: This poll decides which two books will go on to the run off poll for May 2015's Science Fiction BOTM.

 
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