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JULY 2009 READING LIST:
During July 2009, we
featured the writings of
FREDERIK POHL
Born in 1919, Pohl began writing in the late 1930s under various psuedonyms. He began publishing in his own name by 1950. He also worked as a literary agent and an editor of several magazines, including "Super Science Stories." In his younger years, he was a high school dropout
who joined the Communist Party. Pohl was married five times and had five children. He currently resides
in a suburb of Chicago.
TWO time winner of the Nebula Award:
1976 Nebula Award for Man Plus
and 1977 Nebula Award for Gateway
Some of his works are available to download for FREE.
Watch for these Free features from this award-winning sci-fi writer!
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AUDIOBOOKS OF FREDERICK POHL
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The Last Theorem
(With Arthur C. Clarke)
Requires rental plan
*AUDIOBOOK*. The Last Theorem is a story of one man s mathematical obsession, and a celebration of the human spirit and the scientific method. It is also a gripping intellectual thriller in which humanity, facing extermination from the Grand Galactics aliens, must overcome differences of politics and religion and come together . . . or perish ... |
Greatest Science Fiction Stories of 20th Century
$17.50
*AUDIOBOOK*. Besides Frederik Pohl, also includes works by Harlan Ellison, Ursula K. Le Guin, David Brin, Arthur C. Clarke, Greg Bear, others ... |
Day of the
Boomer Dukes
$--FREE--$
Whether you want to read this story in an e-book or hear the audio version, this story is available for free downloads -- completely LEGAL ...
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THE LAST THEOREM by Arthur C. Clarke and Frederik Pohl
A book review by Clay Scott Brown |
| Arthur C. Clarke and Frederick Pohl are two of the Giants of Science Fiction. 2001 A Space Odyssey is one of Mr. Clarke's works and Gateway by Frederick Pohl is one of my favorite books. I still remember when I was a youngster being blown away about Gateway. So now these two fine creative men have joined together for the first time. That can be a good thing, yet it can be a bad thing as well, when two writers put heads together ... more |
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BOOKS BY FREDERICK POHL
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The Boy Who Would Live Forever
$5.99
Stan and Estrella, two young people from Earth, journey to the Gateway asteroid looking for adventure, and discover each other during a flight in one of the ships the alien Heechee left behind when they explored our Solar System. Stan and Estrella settle among the Heechee on a planet in the galactic core, never suspecting that the two of them may be the last, best hope to save the humans ... |
Starburst
$3.98
The crew of the Constitution had been carefully screened for extremely high intelligence and superb physical qualities. They were to be the first explorers sent to another stellar system. There they would explore the planet Alpha-Aleph and then return. Or so they thought ... |
Mars Plus
$3.48
Man is on Mars to stay. But things have become strange, even compared to the population of cyborgs and human misfits who now occupy the Red Planet ... |
Jem
$9.37
The discovery of another habitable world might spell salvation to the three bitterly competing power blocs of the resource-starved 21st century; but when their representatives arrive on Jem, with its multiple intelligent species, they discover instead the perfect situation into which to export their rivalries ... |
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Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
$4.25
Robin Broadhead has figured out how to use a new Heechee artifact, but is haunted by the death of his wife at the mouth of a mysterious black hole that has appeared in the wake of the Heechee discoveries ... |
The SFWA Grand Masters
Volume One
$15.48
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. Frederik Pohl, an eminent figure in SF, has been authorized by the SFWA to edit an anthology in three big volumes featuring substantial selections of the work of all the first fifteen Grand Masters... |
The SFWA Grand Masters
Volume Two
$14.98
Frederik Pohl, one of the world's finest SF authors and editors, has been authorized to edit an anthology in three large-format volumes featuring substantial selections of the work of all the first fifteen Grand Masters. These are the seminal writers within the modern SF field, those whose works are of dominant importance and lasting influence.Volume Two, presenting the second five writers to receive the award, offers fiction by Andre Norton, Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Alfred Bester, and Ray Bradbury ... |
The SFWA Grand Masters
Volume Three
$15.48
This series of collections is a permanent record of greatness in SF.Volume Three, presenting the last five writers to receive the Grand Master award, features the fiction of Lester Del Rey, Frederik Pohl, Damon Knight, A. E. Van Vogt, Jack Vance ... |
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