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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 stories, several hundred in all. Even while writing his bestselling triple-crown (Hugo, Nebula, Campbell Award) novel Gateway and the other Heechee Saga novels, he has always written short fiction.
Now,...
6) Gateway
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Heechee saga volume 1
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St. Martin's Press
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c1977
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A Plague of Pythons is a science fiction novel by American writer Frederik Pohl. Serialized in Galaxy Science Fiction in October and December 1962, the novel was 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" used as part of an exorcism ritual performed in the first chapter to scare away the "demons" that seem to possess people in the novel. The...
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Frederik Pohl was an influential writer and editor. As an editor he won three Hugo awards for best professional magazine. As a writer he won four Hugo Awards and three Nebulas. Pohl was awarded the title of Grand Master by the Science fiction Writers of America and is a member of the Science Fiction Hall of fame. Collected here are a novel and five stories that helped Pohl carve his name onto the science fiction field. His stories are imaginative...
10) Preferred Risk
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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 dell'Angela he learns that everything is not as it seems. His company enforces complete compliance to their rules with a deep freeze vault that anyone who violates their rules is imprisoned in. Once he...
11) Search the Sky
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What is the fate of the colonists who went out from Earth to settle the far planets beyond our universe? Space-ships have been unable to evoke radar responses from these planets, and in a novel as well-written as it is ingenious, one man starts out from Halsey's Planet to find the answer. If there is one... A satirical science fiction novel first published in 1954.
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Frederik Pohl was one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time, with a career that spanned 7 decades (and won him every major award in the field). Included are ten of his classic novels and short stories:
PLAGUE OF PYTHONS
THE DAY OF THE BOOMER DUKES
MY LADY GREENSLEEVES
THE TUNNEL UNDER THE WORLD
PYTHIAS
SEARCH THE SKY (written with C. M. Kornbluth)
THE HATED
THE KNIGHTS OF ARTHUR
SURVIVAL KIT
PREFERRED RISK (written with Lester...
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Great collection of action short stories by Frederik Pohl from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here: "The Tunnel Under the World", "The Day of the Boomer Dukes", "The Hated", "Pythias", "The Knights of Arthur", "My Lady Greensleeves", and "Survival Kit".
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Amazing Stories Volume 130 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are five short stories by different authors: "A Hitch in Time" by Frederik Pohl, "The Penultimate Trump" by R. C. W. Ettinger, "Definition" by Damon Knight, "The Sky Was Full Of Ships" by Theodore Sturgeon, and "You Are Forbidden!" by Jerry Shelton.
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Great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here: "Asteroid of the Damned" by Frederic Pohl and Dirk Wylie, "Rundown" by Robert Lory, "The Time of Cold" by Mary Carlson, "The Cosmic Derelict" by John Broome, "The Thing of Venus" by Wilburn S. Peacock, "Satellite of Fear" and "Pied Piper of Mars" both by Frederic Arnold Kummer, and "The Last Martian" by Ray Van Houten.
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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 hurricane ravaged their little town as viciously as the worst artillery attack could have done.
This is a powerful and tremendously graphic novel of people trapped in that town: and how they learned what...
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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 nuclear power plant.
On April 26, 1986, a power surge caused the core of one of the reactors to explode, spewing a cloud of radioactive steam into the Ukrainian air. More than four thousand people died,...
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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 frightening from there. One of the true classics of science fiction.
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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 science fiction writers of all time and these are some of his best stories.
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