Frederik Pohl

19 Series

Frederik Pohl is an American science fiction author with a career spanning over 70 years. He was named a Nebula Grand Master in 1993 and inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 1998. Pohl frequently collaborated with authors such as Cyril M. Kornbluth and Jack Williamson.

Frederik Pohl co-authored several notable works, including "The Space Merchants" and "Gladiator-at-Law" with C.M. Kornbluth, exploring themes of corporate control and legal battles in futuristic settings. "Mars Plus," written with Thomas T. Thomas, delves into the colonization of Mars and its challenges. In collaboration with Arthur C. Clarke, "The Last Theorem" tackles a mathematician's quest amidst interstellar conflict. "The Future Quartet," featuring contributions from Ben Bova, Jerry Pournelle, and Charles Sheffield, examines diverse future scenarios. "Our Angry Earth," co-authored with Isaac Asimov, addresses environmental crises and the urgent need for global action.

Space Merchants

The Space Merchants / Gravy Planet

(1952)(With: C.M. Kornbluth)

The Merchants' War

(1981)

Starchild (with Jack Williamson)

The Reefs of Space

(1963)

Starchild

(1965)

Rogue Star

(1969)

Saga Of Cuckoo (with Jack Williamson)

Farthest Star

(1975)

Wall Around a Star

(1983)

Heechee Saga

Gateway

(1977)

Beyond the Blue Event Horizon

(1980)

Heechee Rendezvous

(1984)

The Annals of the Heechee

(1987)

The Boy Who Would Live Forever

(1990)

Heechee Collections

The Gateway Trip

(1990)

Eschaton Sequence

The Other End of Time

(1996)

The Siege of Eternity

(1997)

The Far Shore of Time

(1999)

Man Plus

(1976)

Mars Plus

(1994)(By: Thomas T. Thomas)

Standalone Novels

Search the Sky

(1954)(With: C.M. Kornbluth)

Gladiator-at-Law

(1955)(With: C.M. Kornbluth)

A Town is Drowning

(1955)(With: C.M. Kornbluth)

Preferred Risk

(1955)(With: Lester del Rey)

Presidential Year

(1956)(With: C.M. Kornbluth)

Slave Ship

(1957)

Wolfbane

(1957)(With: C.M. Kornbluth)

Drunkard's Walk

(1960)

A Plague of Pythons

(1965)

The Age of the Pussyfoot

(1969)

Jem

(1979)

The Cool War

(1981)

Starburst

(1982)

Syzygy

(1982)

The Years of the City

(1984)

Demon in the Skull

(1984)

Black Star Rising

(1985)

The Coming of the Quantum Cats

(1986)

Terror

(1986)

Chernobyl

(1987)

Land's End

(1988)(With: Jack Williamson)

Narabedla Ltd.

(1988)

The Day The Martians Came

(1988)

Homegoing

(1989)

The World at the End of Time

(1990)

Outnumbering the Dead

(1990)

The Singers of Time

(1991)(With: Jack Williamson)

Mining the Oort

(1992)

Stopping at Slowyear

(1992)

The Voices of Heaven

(1994)

O Pioneer!

(1997)

The Last Theorem

(2008)(With: Arthur C. Clarke)

All the Lives He Led

(2011)

Virtual Nightmare

(2017)

Short Stories/Novellas

The Tunnel Under the World

(1955)

The Hated

(1958)

The Knights of Arthur

(1958)

Fermi and Frost

(1985)

The Day of the Boomer Dukes

(2011)

Midas Plague

(2020)

Short Story Collections

Alternating Currents

(1956)

The Case against Tomorrow

(1956)

Tomorrow Times Seven

(1959)

The Man Who Ate the World

(1960)

The Wonder Effect

(1962)(By: C.M. Kornbluth)

The Abominable Earthman

(1963)

Digits and Dastards

(1966)

Turn Left at Thursday

(1969)

Day Million

(1970)

The Gold at the Starbow's End

(1972)

The Best of Frederik Pohl

(1975)

The Early Pohl

(1976)

In the Problem Pit

(1976)

Survival Kit

(1979)

Planets Three

(1982)

BIPOHL

(1982)

Midas World

(1983)

Pohlstars

(1984)

Platinum Pohl

(2000)

The Hated and Other Stories

(2010)

Works of Frederik Pohl[Illustrated]

(2010)

The Works of Frederik Pohl

(2012)

Adventures in Time and Space

(2015)

Graphic Novels

The Merchants of Venus

(1986)

Non-Fiction

Prince Henry Sinclair

(1951)

Practical Politics 1972

(1971)

The Viking settlements of North America

(1972)

The Way the Future Was

(1978)

Chasing Science

(1980)

Science Fiction Studies in Film

(1981)(With: Frederik Pohl IV)

The New Visions

(1982)

Galaxy Magazine: The Dark and the Light Years

(1986)(By: David L. Rosheim)

Our Angry Earth

(1991)

C.M. Kornbluth Collections (with C.M. Kornbluth)

The Mindworm

(1955)(By: C.M. Kornbluth)

A Mile Beyond the Moon

(1958)(By: C.M. Kornbluth)

The Marching Morons

(1959)(By: C.M. Kornbluth)

The Wonder Effect

(1962)(By: C.M. Kornbluth)

Critical Mass

(1962)(By: C.M. Kornbluth)

The Explorers.

(1963)(By: C.M. Kornbluth)

Thirteen O'clock And Other Zero Hours

(1970)(By: C.M. Kornbluth)

The Best of C. M. Kornbluth

(1976)(By: C.M. Kornbluth)

Before the Universe

(1980)(By: C.M. Kornbluth)

Our Best

(1987)(By: C.M. Kornbluth)

His Share of Glory

(1997)(By: C.M. Kornbluth)

The Cosmic Expense Account

(2009)(By: C.M. Kornbluth)

Eight Worlds of C.M. Kornbluth

(2010)(By: C.M. Kornbluth)

Best Science Fiction of the Year

The Best Science Fiction of the Year 1

(1972)

The Best Science Fiction of the Year 2

(1973)

The Best Science Fiction of the Year 3

(1974)

The Best Science Fiction of the Year 4

(1975)

The Best Science Fiction of the Year 5

(1976)

The Best Science Fiction of the Year 6

(1977)

The Best Science Fiction of the Year 7

(1978)

The Best Science Fiction of the Year 8

(1979)

The Best Science Fiction of the Year 9

(1980)

The Best Science Fiction of the Year 10

(1981)

The Best Science Fiction of the Year 11

(1982)

The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12

(1983)

Best Science Fiction of the Year 13

(1984)

Best Science Fiction of the Year 14

(1984)

Best Science Fiction of the Year 15

(1986)

Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year 16

(1987)

Undersea Eden (with Jack Williamson)

Undersea Quest

(1954)

Undersea Fleet

(1956)

Undersea City

(1958)

Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy

Worlds Apart? Dualism and Transgression in Contemporary Female Dystopias

(2005)(By: Dunja M. Mohr)

Culture, Identities and Technology in the Star Wars Films

(2007)(By: Tony M. Vinci,Carl Silvio)

Tolkien and Shakespeare

(2007)(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Janet Brennan Croft)

Hugo Gernsback and the Century of Science Fiction

(2007)(By: Gary Westfahl)

The Influence of Star Trek on Television, Film and Culture

(2007)(By: Lincoln Geraghty)

The Evolution of Tolkien's Mythology

(2007)(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Elizabeth A. Whittingham)

Dreams and Nightmares

(2008)(By: Mordecai Roshwald)

H. Beam Piper

(2008)(By: John F. Carr)

Science Fiction and the Two Cultures

(2009)(By: George Edgar Slusser,Gary Westfahl)

Stephen R. Donaldson and the Modern Epic Vision

(2009)(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Christine Barkley)

The Science of Fiction and the Fiction of Science

(2009)(By: Neil Gaiman,Frank McConnell,Gary Westfahl,Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III)

The Inter-Galactic Playground

(2009)(By: Farah Mendlesohn)

Portals of Power

(2010)(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Lori M. Campbell)

Illuminating Torchwood

(2010)(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Andrew Ireland)

Comics as a Nexus of Cultures

(2010)(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Jochen Ecke,Mark Berninger,Gideon Haberkorn)

The Animal Fable in Science Fiction and Fantasy

(2010)(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Bruce Shaw)

The Twilight Mystique

(2010)(By: Donald E. Palumbo,Amy M. Clarke,Marijane Osborn)

The Anticipation Novelists of 1950s French Science Fiction

(2010)(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Bradford Lyau)

Science Fiction and the Prediction of the Future

(2011)(By: Gary Westfahl,Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Wong Kin Yuen,Amy Kit-sze Chan)

Apocalypse in Australian Fiction and Film

(2011)(By: unknown author)

The Mythic Fantasy of Robert Holdstock

(2011)(By: Donald E. Morse,Kalman Matolcsy)

British Science Fiction Film and Television

(2011)(By: Derek Johnston,James Leggott,RebeccaWilliams,Tobias Hochscherf)

The Postnational Fantasy

(2011)(By: Masood Ashraf Raja,Donald M. Hassler,Jason W. Ellis,Swaralipi Nandi)

Cult Telefantasy Series

(2011)(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Sue Short)

Heinlein's Juvenile Novels

(2011)(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III)

Welsh Mythology and Folklore in Popular Culture

(2011)(By: Kristin Noone,Audrey Becker)

Of Bread, Blood and the Hunger Games

(2012)(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Mary F. Pharr,Leisa A. Clark)

The Sex Is Out of This World

(2012)(By: Michael G. Cornelius,Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Sherry Ginn)

I See You

(2012)(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Ellen Grabiner)

Orbiting Ray Bradbury's Mars

(2013)(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Gloria McMillan)

Girls Transforming

(2013)(By: Sanna Lehtonen)

The Worlds of Farscape

(2013)(By: Sherry Ginn)

Lois McMaster Bujold

(2013)(By: Sylvia Kelso,Linda Wight,Amy H. Sturgis,Shannan Palma,Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Regina Yung Lee,Sandra J. Lindow,Janet Brennan Croft,David D. Oberhelman,Virginia Bemis,Andrew Hallam,John Lennard)

Doctor Who in Time and Space

(2013)(By: Racheline Maltese,J.M. Frey,Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Janet Brennan Croft,Gillian I. Leitch,Dunja M. Mohr)

The Past That Might Have Been, the Future That May Come

(2013)(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Lauren J. Lacey)

The Heritage of Heinlein

(2013)(With: Thomas D. Clareson,Joe Sanders,Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III)

Nature and the Numinous in Mythopoeic Fantasy Literature

(2014)(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Chris Brawley)

Environments in Science Fiction

(2014)(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Susan M. Bernardo)

Discworld and the Disciplines

(2014)(By: Anne Hiebert Alton)

J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert E. Howard and the Birth of Modern Fantasy

(2014)(By: )

The Monomyth in American Science Fiction Films

(2014)(By: Donald E. Palumbo)

The Fantastic in Holocaust Literature and Film

(2015)(By: John Edgar Browning,Judith B. Kerman)

Michael Moorcock

(2015)(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Mark Scroggins)

Star Wars in the Public Square

(2016)(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Derek R. Sweet)

An Asimov Companion: Characters, Places and Terms in the Robot/Empire/Foundation Metaseries

(2016)(By: Donald E. Palumbo)

An Asimov Companion

(2016)(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III)

The Science Fiction Mythmakers

(2016)(By: Jennifer Simkins)

The Last Midnight

(2016)(By: Mary F. Pharr,Leisa A. Clark,Amanda Firestone)

Gender and the Quest in British Science Fiction Television

(2016)(By: Tom Powers)

Saving the World Through Science Fiction

(2017)(By: )

Science Fiction and Futurism

(2017)(By: Ace G. Pilkington)

Wells Meets Deleuze

(2017)(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Michael Starr)

Patricia A. McKillip and the Art of Fantasy World-Building

(2017)(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Audrey Isabel Taylor)

Science Fiction in Classic Rock

(2017)(By: Robert McParland)

A Dune Companion

(2018)(By: Donald E. Palumbo)

The Fabulous Journeys of Alice and Pinocchio

(2018)(By: Donald E. Palumbo,Peter Hunt,Laura Tosi)

Fantasy Literature and Christianity

(2018)(By: )

The Archive Incarnate

(2018)(By: Joseph Hurtgen)

The British Comic Book Invasion

(2018)(By: Jochen Ecke)

Hailing frequencies open: Communication in Star Trek

(2019)(By: Thomas D. Parham)

Women's Space

(2019)(By: Melanie A Marotta)

The Global Vampire

(2020)(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Cait Coker)

Philip K. Dick: Essays of the Here and Now

(2020)(By: David Sandner,Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III)

Caitlín R. Kiernan: A Critical Study of Her Dark Fiction

(2020)(By: James Goho,Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III)

The Fortean Influence on Science Fiction

(2020)(By: Tanner F. Boyle)

Michael Bishop and the Persistence of Wonder

(2021)(By: Joe Sanders,Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III)

In Frankenstein's Wake

(2021)(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Alison Bedford)

The Truths of Monsters

(2021)(By: Ildikó Limpár)

The Mythopoeic Code of Tolkien

(2021)(By: Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Jyrki Korpua)

English Magic and Imperial Madness

(2021)(By: Peter D. Mathews)

Speculative Modernism

(2021)(By: William Gillard,James Reitter,Robert Stauffer)

Arab and Muslim Science Fiction

(2022)(By: Emad El-Din Aysha,Hosam A. Ibrahim Elzembely)

The Self and Community in Star Trek

(2022)(By: Susan M Bernardo)

Magic Words, Magic Worlds

(2022)(By: Matthew Oliver,Donald E Palumbo,C W Sullivan III)

Science, Technology and Magic in the Witcher

(2022)(By: Donald E Palumbo,C W Sullivan III,Kristine Larsen)

Nnedi Okorafor

(2022)(By: Sandra J Lindow)

Analyzing Adventure Time

(2023)(By: Paul A.Thomas)

The Space Merchants (with C.M. Kornbluth)

The Space Merchants / Gravy Planet

(1952)(With: C.M. Kornbluth)

Isaac Asimov's Anthology

Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction

(1980)(By: Isaac Asimov,Tanith Lee,Phyllis Eisenstein,Gene Wolfe,Barry B. Longyear,John M. Ford,Arnie Bateman,Alan Dean Foster,Martin Gardner,Randall Garrett,Rob Chilson,Ted Reynolds,George Scithers,Richard S. McEnroe,Jeff Duntemann,R.N. Bracewell,K.W. MacAnn,G. Richard Bozarth)

Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far

(1981)(With: Isaac Asimov,Carter Scholz,Barry B. Longyear,John M. Ford,Jack Williamson,Darrell Schweitzer,John Brunner,Juleen Brantingham,Martin Gardner,Richard Wilson,Milton A. Rothman,Elizabeth Anne Hull,Sharon Webb,Somtow Sucharitkul,Lee Weinstein,Ted Reynolds,George Scithers,F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre,William Tuning,Francis E. Izzo,Paul David Novitski,Lee Russell,Seth S. Horowitz,Tol E. Rant,S. Dale,Julie Flores,Tony Sarowitz)

Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own

(1983)(By: Connie Willis,Ursula K. Le Guin,Pat Cadigan,Joan D. Vinge,Tanith Lee,Pamela Sargent,Lee Killough,Mary Gentle,Mildred Downey Broxon,Shawna McCarthy,Sharon Webb,Leigh Kennedy,Stephanie A. Smith,Cherie Wilkerson,Julie Stevens,Sydney J. Van Scyoc,Cyn Mason,P.A. Kagan,P.J. MacQuarrie,Janet O. Jeppson,Beverly Grant,Hope Athearn)

Isaac Asimov's Fantasy!

(1985)(By: Shawna McCarthy)

Isaac Asimov's Fantasy!

(1989)(By: Connie Willis,George R.R. Martin,Ron Goulart,John Kessel,George Alec Effinger,Robert Thurston,Tanith Lee,Lucius Shepard,Scott Baker,Lillian Carl,Juleen Brantingham,Lee Killough,Ian McDowell,Daphne Castell,Sharon N. Farber,Richard Kearns,Shawna McCarthy,Leigh Kennedy,Gregg Keizer,Kristi Olesen)

Isaac Asimov's Aliens

(1991)(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois)

Isaac Asimov's Robots

(1991)(By: Isaac Asimov,Rob Chilson)

Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite

(1993)(By: Isaac Asimov,John M. Ford)

Isaac Asimov's War

(1993)(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois)

Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams

(1994)(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois)

Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep

(1995)(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois)

Isaac Asimov's Ghosts

(1995)(By: Isaac Asimov,Terry Bisson)

Isaac Asimov's Christmas

(1997)(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois)

Isaac Asimov's Camelot

(1998)(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois,Eleanor Arnason)

Isaac Asimov's Detectives

(1998)(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois)

Isaac Asimov's Werewolves

(1999)(By: Isaac Asimov,Suzy McKee Charnas,Gardner Dozois)

Isaac Asimov's Solar System

(1999)(By: Gardner Dozois)

Isaac Asimov's Utopias

(2000)(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois)

Isaac Asimov's Father Day

(2001)(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois)

Isaac Asimov's Halloween

(2001)(By: Isaac Asimov)

Anthologies

Star Science Fiction Stories No. 1

(1953)

Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2

(1953)

Star Science Fiction Stories No. 6

(1953)

Star Science Fiction Stories 3

(1955)

Star Science Fiction Stories No. 4

(1958)

Galaxy Science Fiction, December 1963

(1963)

Connoisseur's Science Fiction

(1964)

New Writings In SF-3

(1964)

The Eighth Galaxy Reader

(1965)

Science Fiction Oddities

(1966)

Dangerous Visions

(1967)

Backdrop of Stars

(1968)

Worlds of If, February 1969

(1969)

The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 3

(1970)

Orbit 11

(1972)

Alpha 3

(1972)

Star Science Fiction Stories No. 5

(1972)

The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 20th Series

(1973)

Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader

(1973)

Wondermakers 2

(1974)

Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology

(1974)

Science Fiction Today and Tomorrow: A Discursive Symposium

(1975)

The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 22nd Series

(1976)

The Late Great Future

(1976)

Science Fiction Discoveries

(1976)

Algol The Magazine About Science Fiction - Winter 1977 / 1978

(1977)

Perilous Planets

(1978)

Galaxy Science Fiction, September-October 1979

(1979)

The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction / Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century

(1980)

Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far

(1981)

The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12

(1983)

Tales from the Planet Earth

(1986)

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 1987

(1987)

The Monster Book of Monsters

(1988)

Mississippi Review 47 / 48

(1988)

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 1988

(1988)

Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories

(1990)

The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories

(1992)

Murasaki

(1992)

Inside the Funhouse

(1992)

Invaders!

(1993)

Omni Visions Two

(1994)

The Necronomicon

(1996)

Far Horizons

(1999)

Bangs & Whimpers

(1999)

The SFWA Grand Masters 1

(1999)

Armageddons

(1999)

The Furthest Horizon

(2000)

American Body in Context

(2001)

The SFWA Grand Masters 3

(2001)

DAW 30th Anniversary Science Fiction

(2002)

DAW 30th Anniversary Science Fiction and Fantasy Anthologies

(2002)

The Hard SF Renaissance

(2003)

The Best of the Best, Vol 2

(2007)

The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction

(2010)

Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, February 1955

(2011)

Arc 1.2: Post Human Conditions

(2012)

The Ninth Science Fiction Megapack

(2014)

Lieu: Science Fiction Short Stories

(2015)

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