Frederik Pohl

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  • Bibliography:
    92 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1953
  • Latest Book:
    September 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Eschaton Sequence

1 - The Other End of Time (Jul-1997)
2 - The Siege of Eternity (Nov-1997)
3 - Far Shore of Time (Mar-2000)

A Gateway Novel

1 - Gateway (1976)
2 - Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (Feb-1980)
3 - Heechee Rendezvous (May-1984)
4 - The Annals of the Heechee (Mar-1987)
The Boy Who Would Live Forever (Oct-2004)

Book List in Order: 92 titles

  • The Space Merchants

    • / Science Fiction
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    In a vastly overpopulated near-future world, businesses have taken the place of governments and now hold all political power. States exist merely to ensure the survival of huge transnational corporations. Advertising has become hugely aggressive a...

  • Slave Ship

    • / Science Fiction
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    PROJECT MAKO Lieutenant Logan Miller didn't ask questions when the Navy pulled him off combat duty and assigned him to an ultra-secret research project. After all, the Navy knew best. But when he was dropped in the middle of a farm in Florid...

  • The Deadly Mission of P. Snodgrass

    in The Enchanter Completed

    For seven decades, L. Sprague de Camp was a giant in both science fiction and fantasy, renowned for his fast-moving action-adventure tales with a strong humorous element. Now, Hugo-winner and best-selling author Harry Turtledove has gathered together...

  • Three Portraits and a Prayer

    in The Late Great Future
    • / General Fiction
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    THEY'VE SEEN THE FUTURE -- AND IT DOESN'T LOOK GOOD.... What's going to happen when the world ends? Here are 14 humorous, poignant, eerie, and altogether too possible views of what things will be like when: • Walking for pleasure and exercise b...

  • The Day After the Day the Martians Came

    in Dangerous Visions #1

  • Age of the Pussyfoot

    MAN ALIVE Charles. Forrester was out of the deepfreeze. It had taken several centuries to bring him back to life. But what a life it was! The 26th Century offered pleasure at the flip of a button--everything from gourmet food to stupendous s...

  • Gateway

    • / Science Fiction
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    A Gateway Novel - 1

    RICH MAN, DEAD MAN Those were the choices Gateway offered--the same for women, too, of course. Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe... and on reaches of unimaginable horror. The humans who rode the alien Heechee spacecraft stored on...

  • Man Plus

    The Nebula Awardâ€"winning masterwork by the author of GatewayIn the not-too-distant future, a desperate war for natural resources threatens to bring civilization to a crashing halt. Nuclear warships from around the globe begin positioning themselves...

  • Science Fiction of the Fourties



  • Jem

    With Earth overburdened by too many people and too few resources, the planet's fate hangs in the balance, but the discovery of an Earthlike world in a nearby system brings new hope, unless humankind's warlike tendencies get in the way. Original....

  • The Way the Future Was: A Memoir

  • The Cool War

    In the year 2020, the Reverend Hornswell Hake is drafted into the Team--the successor to the CIA--and thrust into the front line of the cool war of intrigue and sabotage which has replaced armed conflict...

  • Beyond the Blue Event Horizon

    A Gateway Novel - 2

    GATEWAY TO THE HEECHEE Robinette Broadhead, made rich . by the Gateway mission that had cost him the woman he loved joined in bankrolling an expedition to the Food Factory a Heechee spaceship found beyond the orbit of Pluto and designed to graze t...

  • Before the Universe

    Collection of classic stories by collaborators C. M. Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl. Introduction and Afterword by Pohl, plus these stories: Mars-Tube (1941); Trouble in Time (1940); Vacant World (1940); Best Friend (1941); Before the Universe (1940); N...

  • Nebula Winners Fourteen

    CONTENTS: Introduction: A Guide to the Perplexed (1980) (essay) by Frederik Pohl; The Persistence of Vision (1978) by John Varley; Stone (1978) by Edward Bryant; A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn's Eye (1977) by Charles L. Grant; Science Fiction: 1938 (19...

  • This Is My Best

  • Planets Three

    An alien creature holds the inhabitants of Earth captive, an intergalactic explorer is hired to find the reason why a lunar mining operation is plagued by suspicious accidents, and a band of rebels plots to overthrow the rulers of Venus...

  • The New Visions

    • / Science Fiction
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  • Starburst

    THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST
    The crew of the Constitution--scientists cum astronauts--had been carefully screened for extremely high intelligence and superb physical qualities. They were to be the first explorers sent to another stellar system. Ther...



  • Yesterday's Tomorrows

  • Wall Around a Star: The Saga of Cuckoo

    Jen Babylon, a linguist, must solve the mystery of the origin of Cuckoo, a huge planet inhabited by alien beings as well as a race of humans...

  • Midas World

    After acquiring the limitless energy provided by controlled nuclear fusion, the people of Earth create a surfeit of consumer products that strips the earth of its resources and threatens to bury its people...

  • Heechee Rendezvous

    A Gateway Novel - 3

    Once the galaxy was ruled by the Heechee benevolent a lens with almost godlike powers. But five hundred thousand years ago, they encountered an even more powerful race, and to prevent their own destruction, the Heechee fled to the relative safety of ...

  • Demon in the Skull

  • Pohlstars

  • The Merchants' War

  • Black Star Rising

    "Take us to your leader, if you can..." When a mysterious alien spacecraft approaches Earth and demands to speak with the President of the United States, then destroys a large Pacific island to demonstrate its strength and underscore its seriousne...

  • The Years of the City

    In the New York City of the next century, twin domes over Manhattan control extremes of weather, illegal hang-gliding is common, and many old problems have been solved--but the rage of some Gothamites cannot be controlled. Reprint. PW. NYT. ...

  • Gladiator-At-Law

    • / Science Fiction
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    CAUTION!You are about to enter a world...where all engineering ingenuity has been employed for public spectacles of torture and deathwhere the stock market operates with pari-mutuel machineswhere a court clerk transcribes testimony on punch cards, th...



  • The Merchants of Venus

    1986, oversize paperback science fiction graphic novel edition, DC Comics, NY. Terrific adaptation of a work first published in 1972 by If Worlds of Science Fiction. Most attractive color artwork throughout. "One of the finest, most striking writers ...

  • Wolfbane

    Appallingly, the Earth and the Moon had been kidnapped from the Solar System - but who were the kidnappers and what ransom did they want? Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornlbuth weave a fantastic science fiction tale for the ages!...

  • Terror

  • Worlds of If

    Retrospective anthology; most works have a forward by the story's author. CONTENTS: Introduction by Frederik Pohl; As IF Was in the Beginning by Larry T. Shaw; The Golden Man (1954) by Philip K. Dick; The Battle (1954) by Robert Sheckley; Last Rites ...

  • Our Best

    Edited, with an introduction, afterword, and essays about the stories by Frederik Pohl. Stories include: Trouble in Time; Mars-Tube; Critical Mass; The World of Myrion Flowers; The Engineer; A Gentle Dying; Nightmare with Zeppelins; The Quaker Cann...

  • The Annals of the Heechee

    A Gateway Novel - 4

    HORIZON'S GATEWAY Advanced Heechee technology had enabled Robinette Broadhead to live after death as a machine-stored personality He passed the time flitting along the wires from party to party with a host of other machine-people. But suddenly ...

  • Bipohl

  • Chernobyl

    Hugo and Nebula award-winning science fiction Grand Master Frederik Pohl presents a fictional account of the worst nuclear disaster in human history. Chernobyl: The very name conjures the catastrophe that the world feared could happen someday at a n...

  • Tales from the Planet Earth

  • Narabedla Ltd

    ACCOUNTANT TO THE STARS Back when Nolly Stennis had been a promising baritone, he had been offered an unbelievable singing opportunity by Narabedla Ltd. But illness had ruined his voice and ended his career in music, leaving him to make his living...



  • Land's End

    When Comet Sicara brushed near enough to strip the ozone layer form the Earth's atmosphere, civilization effectively ended--in fact, life on Earth was nearly extinguished. But the underwater cities survived, and some heavily protected land enclaves a...

  • Homegoing

    Sandy Washington was a pretty normal guy. He was a good friend, sensitive and caring. He respected his elders and obeyed his teachers. He loved basketball, old movies, and writing poetry. And he worshiped the photograph of his long-dead mother. The o...

  • The Gateway Trip: Tales and Vignettes of the Heechee

  • The Singers of Time

    When the conquering aliens on Earth find out that their home planet has been destroyed, they turn to the humans--whom they have long treated as intellectually inferior--for the scientific help they need to rescue their planet...

  • The World at the End of Time

    "Frederick Pohl succeeds where others wouldn't even dare..."

    The Denver Post

    Wan-To was the oldest and must powerful intelligence in the universe, a being who played with star systems as a child plays with marbles. Matter occupied so tiny a part ...

  • Stopping at Slowyear

    • / Science Fiction
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    Eager for a home of their own, the crew of Nordvik, an antiquated trading ship, decides to set up camp on Slowyear, a rarely visited planet whose population must live underground during bitter winters lasting five Earth years...

  • Outnumbering the Dead

    In a future where medical science has all but eliminated death, vid star Rafiel is faced with his own demise and learns many poignant lessons about life as he struggles with this reality. By the author of Our Angry Earth. ...

  • The Undersea Trilogy

    When Jim Eden's uncle, the inventor of a valuable undersea device, disappears while testing a new undersea mining process, Eden heads for the undersea mining colony to investigate on his own. Original....

  • Mining the Oort

    Mars was harsh and unforgiving, but for the colonists who called it home, its future was as bright as the comets that hung in the night sky, for locked in those icy bodies were the water and gases that would make Mars live again, mined from the vast ...

  • Mars Plus

    Fifty years after the colonization of Mars forced its new residents to undergo genetic and cyborg alteration, the Martian computer net, upon which all Martian life depends, develops a dangerous mind of its own. Reprint....



  • Search the Sky

    Something Was Very Wrong, Out There Among The Stars...The interstellar transport had touched down on six other colony worlds - and all six had been devoid of human life. Where was everybody? It was almost as if humankind, when separated by cosmic dis...

  • The Voices of Heaven

    Barry di Hoa had the good life on the Moon: steady work and the love of a good woman. But a rival slipped him a mickey, and he next awoke aboard Gerald Tscharka's ship as it neared the colony planet, Pava, eighteen light-years away.

    Pava was t...

  • The Other End of Time

    Eschaton Sequence - 1

    Earth, 2031: Alien contact.

    Signals are received: a crude depiction of creatures pantomiming the cataclysmic destruction of the universe.

    Soon after, scientists note unusual radiation emanating from an abandoned Earth-orbital observator...

  • The Siege of Eternity

    Eschaton Sequence - 2

    The aliens aren't coming. They're here. We've captured several of them,. Are they our saviors, or are they out to destroy us? We've seen no spaceships, received no ultimatums--but the aliens may have a more insidious plot.... Government agent D...

  • O Pioneer!

    The overcrowded Earth isn't room enough for Evesham Giyt, a solitary and brilliant computer hacker who yearns for the long-gone frontiers of the past. Chasing stories of unspoiled beauty and endless possibility, he takes a leap across the stars to th...

  • Far Shore of Time

    Eschaton Sequence - 3

    Dan Dannerman has been through hell. Caught in the middle of an interstellar war that will end only with the death of the universe, he's been captured by aliens who call themselves the Beloved Leaders, cloned repeatedly, torn from his wife, and bruta...

  • The SFWA Grand Masters, Volume 1

    The Nebula Awards are voted on, and presented by, active members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. The Grand Master Award is given to a living author for a lifetime's achievement in science fiction and/or fantasy. Frederi...

  • The SFWA Grand Masters, Volume 2

    The Nebula Awards are voted on, and presented by, active members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. (or SWFA)―and the Grand Master Award is given by the SWFA to a living author for a lifetime's achievement in science fic...

  • A Home for the Old Ones

    in 30th Anniversary DAW: Science Fiction
    • / Science Fiction
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    Such masters of the Science Fiction genre as Tad Williams, Brian Aldiss, Frederik Pohl, Kate Elliot, C.J. Cherryh, and Julie E. Czerneda contribute all new, original pieces of short fiction to this commemorative volume honoring DAW Books thirtieth ye...

  • The SFWA Grand Masters, Volume 3

    The Nebula Awards are voted on, and presented, by active members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. The Grand Master Award is given to a living author for a lifetime's achievement in science fiction and/or fantasy.

    F...

  • The Day the Martians Came

    Henry Steegman is hardly "Mr. Personality" aboard the Mars-bound Algonquin 9. Yet it is he who bungles upon the spectacular Macy's-like city beneath the Red Planet's crust. For better or worse, the name Steegman will be immortalized by a discovery th...

  • Man Plus and Jem

    Ill luck made Roger Torraway the subject of the Man Plus Programme, but it was deliberate biological engineering which turned him into a monster -- a machine perfectly adapted to survive on Mars. For according to computer predictions, Mars is humanki...

  • Platinum Pohl

    Frederik Pohl, the bestselling author of The Boy Who Would Live Forever, is famous for his novels, but first and foremost, he is a master of the science fiction short story. For more than fifty years he has been writing incisive, entertaining SF sto...

  • The Boy Who Would Live Forever

    A Gateway Novel

    In 1977 Frederik Pohl stunned the science fiction world with the publication of Gateway, one of the most brilliantly entertaining SF novels of all time. More than twenty-five years later, Pohl completed a new novel set in the Gateway universe: The Bo...

  • The Day of the Boomer Dukes; The Tunnel Under The World; The Hated; Pythias; The Knights of Arthur

    Collected here are five adventures from Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master and Science Fiction Hall of Fame member, Frederik Pohl. Each of these stories will transport you to an imaginative place and time. Pohl was one of the best scienc...

  • Pythias

    Sure, Larry Connaught saved my life -- but it was how he did it that forced me to murder him!...

  • All the Lives He Led

    Two thousand years after Pompeii's destruction, a thriller of upheaval--volcanic and political--as only SF Grandmaster Frederik Pohl can write it In "All the Lives He Led," in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, a compelling human drama unfolds in a near-f...

  • Mammoth Books presents Fermi and Frost

    Astronomer Harry Malibert is at an airport when nuclear war breaks out. Having been recognised by a fan, he is offered a seat on a plane to Iceland. Though most of ReykjavĂ­k has been destroyed by a thermonuclear weapon, the rest of the Iceland has b...

  • Anthology of Sci-Fi V29, the Pulp Writers - Frederik Pohl

    The Anthology of Sci-Fi V29 is a collection of five Sci-fi stories from one of the best writers of the past century, Frederik Pohl. Included are: Pythias, The Hated, The Knights of Arthur, The Tunnel Under The World, The Day of the Boomer Dukes....

  • The Genius Beasts & This World is Taboo

    Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic science fiction double novels. The first novel “The Genius Beasts” is a terrific tale by master sci-fi writer, Frederik Pohl. They were whisked away to Ganymede. For Nick and his friends i...

  • Adventures in Time and Space

    Collected here are five adventures from Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master and Science Fiction Hall of Fame member, Frederik Pohl. Each of these stories will transport you to an imaginative place and time. Pohl was one of the best scienc...

  • The Frederik Pohl Collection

    Frederik Pohl (November 26, 1919 â€" September 2, 2013) An American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning more than seventy-five years. From about 1959 until 1969 Pohl edited "Galaxy" and its sister magazine "If"; the latter ...

  • My Lady Greensleeves

    This guard smelled trouble and it could be counted on to come -- for a nose for trouble was one of the many talents bred here! A classic novella about the future of law enforcement by Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master Frederik Pohl....

  • Survival Kit

    It wasn't fair - a smart but luckless man like Mooney had to scrounge, while Harse always made out just because he had a...Survival Kit! Frederik Pohl truly astonishes with another masterpiece of science fiction, Survival Kit!...

  • Virtual Nightmare

    Virtual Nightmare, first published as "The Tunnel Under The World" in 1955, is a science fiction short novel that explores the theme of simulated reality and the simulation hypothesis.

    The Simulation Hypothesis proposes that reality is in f...

  • The Five Hells of Orion

    One minute Herrell McCray was on the spaceship circling Betelgeuse Nine and the next he was in darkness and utter silence. McCray had no idea where he was to how he got there. To Hatcher, he was a specimen from Earth....

  • Conspiracy on Callisto

    Revolt was flaring on Callisto, and Peter Duane held the secret that would make the uprising a success or failure. Yet he could make no move, could favor no side -- his memory was gone -- he didn't know for whom he fought....

  • Double-Cross

    Revolt was brewing on Venus, led by the descendant of the first Earthmen to land. Svan was the leader making the final plans -- plotting them a bit too well....

  • A Town Is Drowning

    It was a pleasant little town in the Northeast. It had never been hurricane country. When they heard that Diane was coming, they couldn’t really believe it would harm them. And the hurricane itself didn’t touch them.But the rains caused by the hu...

  • A Hitch in Time

    He gave me information before he died, and I had no trouble locating the spot I wanted. I waited till dark before landing a few hundred yards from the war-dome. Then I hid my space-drive suit in a cluster of ancient trees and walked into the building...

  • Best of Frederik Pohl

    • / General Fiction
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    This is a British paperback, published by Orbit. Best short fiction by one of science fiction's Grand Masters. Includes essays by Pohl and Lester del Rey, plus the following stories: The Day the Icicle Works Closed (1960); Day Million (1966); The Mid...

  • Coming of the Quantum Cats

    • / Science Fiction
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    A brilliant novel of alternate universes by an award-winning science fiction master
     
    A breakthrough in quantum physics has shattered the boundaries between alternate worlds. History is in chaos as billions of possible futures collide. A...

  • Complete Science- Survival Kit Plague of Pythons Tunnel Under The World My Lady Greensleeves Knights of Arthur

    • / Fantasy
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    An American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning more than seventy-five years.The Science Fiction Writers of America named Pohl its 12th recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award in 1993. Pohl won the Hugo Aw...

  • The Day Of The Boomer Dukes

    • / Science Fiction
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    A delightful time travel romp. What happens when a bored criminal from the future returns to a more exciting time in the past? Foraminifera 9-Hart Bailey's Beam is about to find out. He's gathered a cache of high-tech weapons to take back in time wit...

  • The Engineer

    • / Science Fiction
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  • In the problem pit

    • / General Fiction
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  • The Knights Of Arthur

    • / Science Fiction
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    With one suitcase as his domain, Arthur was desperately in need of armed henchmen … for his keys to a kingdom were typewriter keys!...

  • Nebula Winners: 14

    • / Science Fiction
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  • A Plague of Pythons

    • / General Fiction
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    Plague of Pythons is a science fiction novel by American writer Frederik Pohl. It was originally published in 1965, and an updated version was published in 1984 under the title Demon in the Skull. The title derives from the words "Domina Pythonis...

  • Preferred Risk

    • / General Fiction
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    Thomas Wills is a claims adjuster. That doesn't sound like much, but the insurance company he works for rules the world with an Iron fist. Thomas Wills believes he is working for the greatest company in the history of mankind. But when he meets Rena ...

  • Rate this book The Age of the Pussyfoot

    • / Science Fiction
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    Technical writer and volunteer fireman Charles Forrester died at age 37. But his insurance covered freezing in liquid nitrogen against the possibility of someday being thawed, repaired, and returned to life. Which is how he woke up in 2527, with a qu...

  • Syzygy

    • / General Fiction
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  • The Tunnel Under The World

    • / Science Fiction
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    Guy Burckhardt wakes up screaming, but can't remember the nightmare that caused his fright. Slowly over the next couple of days he comes to realize he's been reliving the same day over and over. And things only get stranger and more frighteni...

Award-Winning Books by Frederik Pohl

Gateway
1978 Hugo Award -- Novel
1978 John W. Campbell Memorial Award -- Novel
1978 Locus Award -- Science Fiction
1978 Nebula Award -- Novel
Jem
1980 National Book Award -- Science Fiction (hardcover)
Man Plus
1977 Nebula Award -- Novel
The Years of the City
1985 John W. Campbell Memorial Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Frederik Pohl has published 92 books.

Frederik Pohl does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Hitch in Time, was published in September 2022.

The first book by Frederik Pohl, The Space Merchants, was published in January 1953.

Yes. Frederik Pohl has 2 series.
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