Frederik Pohl (1919–2013)
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Frederik Pohl was born in New York City on November 26, 1919. More interested in writing than in school, he dropped out of high school in his senior year and took a job with a publishing company. After serving as a public relations officer in the United States Army from 1943 to 1945, he returned to visa mer publishing as copywriter for Popular Science, a literary agent for several sci-fi writers, and the editor for the magazines Galaxy and If from 1959 until 1969, with If winning three successive Hugo awards. His first published work, a poem entitled Elegy to a Dead Satellite: Luna, was printed in Amazing Stories magazine in 1937 under the pen name Elton Andrews. His first science fiction novels were published in the mid 1960's, some written in collaboration with other writers, others created alone. During his lifetime, he won over 16 major awards for his writing (much of which was published pseudonymously) including six Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards. His works include Gateway, which won the Campbell Memorial, Hugo, Locus SF, and Nebula Awards, Beyond the Blue Event Horizon, and Jem, which won the National Book Award in 1979. He also embraced blogging in his later years, using his online journal as an ongoing sequel to his autobiography, The Way the Future Was. He died on September 2, 2013 at the age 93. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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(eng) The SF writer Frederik Pohl is not Frederick J. Pohl, who died in 1991 and wrote controversial books on exploration.
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Verk av Frederik Pohl
The SFWA Grand Masters, Volume 3: Lester Del Rey, Frederik Pohl, Damon Knight, A. E. van Vogt, and Jack Vance (2001) 98 exemplar
The Census Takers 10 exemplar
Doomship [short fiction] 9 exemplar
Hatching the Phoenix 6 exemplar
Punch (short story) 5 exemplar
The Quaker Cannon [short fiction] 5 exemplar
Wapshot's Demon [short story] 5 exemplar
In the Problem Pit 5 exemplar
The Merchants of Venus 5 exemplar
Happy Birthday, Dear Jesus 4 exemplar
The Celebrated No-Hit Inning [short story] 4 exemplar
The Candle Lighter [short story] 4 exemplar
Um Demónio no Cérebro 4 exemplar
Mute Inglorious Tam [short fiction] 4 exemplar
A Gentle Dying 4 exemplar
Three Vintage SF Novels of Pohl and Kornbluth: The Syndic, Plague of Pythons, and Wolfbane (2009) 4 exemplar
Introduction to Nebula Award Stories 14 4 exemplar
The Greening of Bed-Stuy 3 exemplar
Servant of the People [short story] 3 exemplar
Nightmare with Zeppelins 3 exemplar
Para além da porta das estrelas - 2 3 exemplar
Os cantores do tempo - 1 3 exemplar
Os cantores do tempo - 2 3 exemplar
Para além da porta das estrelas - 1 3 exemplar
Critical Mass [short story] 3 exemplar
Three Portraits and a Prayer 3 exemplar
We Never Mention Aunt Nora 3 exemplar
Farmer on the Dole 3 exemplar
Waiting for the Olympians [short fiction] 3 exemplar
The Engineer 3 exemplar
The World of Myrion Flowers 3 exemplar
As vozes do céu - 2 3 exemplar
As vozes do céu - 1 3 exemplar
Millemondi Estate 1989 3 exemplar
Third Offense 3 exemplar
Mars-Tube 2 exemplar
Red Moon of Danger [novella] 2 exemplar
Trouble in Time 2 exemplar
Best Friend 2 exemplar
The Science Fiction Novel Super Pack No. 1: Fifteen hundred pages of fiction (Positronic Super Pack Series Book 15) (2016) 2 exemplar
Star Science Fiction Jan 1958 2 exemplar
Proiectul Omul Plus 2 exemplar
Super Science Stories, Vol 1, No 4, September 1940 — Redaktör — 2 exemplar
The Reunion at the Mile-High 2 exemplar
Astonishing Stories [1940-04] 2 exemplar
The Boy who would Live Forever {short story} 2 exemplar
Las llaves de diciembre 2 exemplar
Sitting Around The Pool, Soaking Up The Rays 2 exemplar
The Treasures of Chujo [short story] 2 exemplar
The house of the spirit 2 exemplar
O dia em que o sol desapareceu 2 exemplar
Generations 2 exemplar
I Remember a Winter 2 exemplar
Super Science Novels Magazine, Vol 2, No 3, March 1941 — Redaktör — 2 exemplar
We Servants Of The Stars 2 exemplar
Os possuídos 2 exemplar
Swanilda's Song 2 exemplar
Short Science Fiction Collection 011 2 exemplar
The Hated 2 exemplar
Gladiator-at-law, etc 2 exemplar
The Kindly Isle 2 exemplar
Marinia 2 exemplar
Collectible Frederik Pohl THE ANNALS OF THE HEECHEE First edition 1987 4th in Heechee Saga 2 exemplar
The Hated [short story] 1 exemplar
Galaxy Dec. 1962, vol. 21 no. 2 1 exemplar
Frugate il cielo 1 exemplar
Para Além do Acontecer 2 1 exemplar
Los sodores expertos 1 exemplar
Astonishing Stories, April 1941 1 exemplar
Para Além do Acontecer 1 1 exemplar
S one strane plavog obzorja događanja 1 exemplar
Kapija 3: Susret sa Hičijima 1 exemplar
A Porta das Estrelas 2 1 exemplar
A Porta das Estrelas 1 1 exemplar
סף האירוע 1 exemplar
Regresso a Casa II 1 exemplar
Short Stories 1 exemplar
All About the Future 1 exemplar
A Visit To Belindia 1 exemplar
What Dreams Remain 1 exemplar
Short Stories Frederik Pohl 1 exemplar
Some Joys Under the Star 1 exemplar
Heechee Saga 1 exemplar
Short Fiction 1 exemplar
If February 1965 1 exemplar
Galaxy 90 1 exemplar
O Projecto Oort II Livro 1 1 exemplar
O Projecto Oort - Vol. 1 Livro 1 1 exemplar
Para Além do Acontecer 1 Livro 1 1 exemplar
Los hombres de Gor 1 exemplar
Los inmortales 1 exemplar
Star: Short Novels 1 exemplar
A Porta das Estrelas II Livro 3 1 exemplar
La llegada los gatos cuánticos 1 exemplar
Para Além do Acontecer 2 Livro 1 1 exemplar
Star 5 Science Fiction 1 exemplar
The Little Man On The Subway 1 exemplar
A Guerra dos Mercadores Livro 1 1 exemplar
A Porta das Estrelas I Livro 3 1 exemplar
O projecto Oort 1 exemplar
To Whomall Things Concern 1 exemplar
The Prisoner Of New York Island 1 exemplar
A Hint of Henbane 1 exemplar
Elegy To A Dead Planet: Luna 1 exemplar
The King's Eye 1 exemplar
Earth Farewell! 1 exemplar
Highwayman Of The Void 1 exemplar
A Variety Of Excellence 1 exemplar
How To Count On Your Fingers 1 exemplar
Para além do acontecer - 1 1 exemplar
What The Author Has To Say About All This 1 exemplar
Part One The Visit 1 exemplar
Part Two The Merchants Of Venus 1 exemplar
Part Three The Gateway Asteroid 1 exemplar
Part Four The Starseekers 1 exemplar
Mission Pulsar 1 exemplar
Mission Halo 1 exemplar
Mission Naked Black Hole 1 exemplar
Para além do acontecer - 2 1 exemplar
A porta das estrelas - 2 1 exemplar
Part Six Other Worlds 1 exemplar
A Frederik Pohl Collection Vol I: Pythias,The Hated, The Knight's of Arthur, The Tunnel Under the World, The Day… (2010) 1 exemplar
Ultimato à Terra 1 exemplar
Abominable Earthman {short story} 1 exemplar
A Life and a Half [short fiction] 1 exemplar
Whatever Counts [short fiction] 1 exemplar
The Gentlest Unpeople [short story] 1 exemplar
The Heechee Saga (4 books) (Gateway, Beyond the Blue Event, Heechee Rendezvous, The Annals of the Heechee) (1990) 1 exemplar
A porta das estrelas - 1 1 exemplar
Afterword [short story] 1 exemplar
Confounding SF 1 exemplar
Brain Drain 1 exemplar
On Velocity Exercises 1 exemplar
Part Five The Home Planet 1 exemplar
Mission Pretty Poison 1 exemplar
Galaxy bk 8 1 exemplar
Figurehead [short story] 1 exemplar
Mars Masked 1 exemplar
Nr. 258. Geheimkommando Madagaskar 1 exemplar
Galaxy bk 2 1 exemplar
Ciencia ficción norteamericana I 1 exemplar
Podmorsko traganje 1 exemplar
Our Angry Earth 1 exemplar
Search the Sky 1 exemplar
Cyril M. 1 exemplar
Drumul Prin Poarta (Romanian Edition) 1 exemplar
Mission Burnout 1 exemplar
Robot 14 1 exemplar
Part Seven Heechee Treasures 1 exemplar
Mission Toolbox 1 exemplar
Mission Heater 1 exemplar
Mission Food Factory 1 exemplar
Part Eight Looking For Company 1 exemplar
Mission Stinkpot 1 exemplar
Part Nine The Age Of Gold 1 exemplar
Part Ten In The Core 1 exemplar
The Rocky Python Christmas Video Show 1 exemplar
The Martians {novelette} 1 exemplar
The Shape of Science Fiction to Come 1 exemplar
The matter of Beaupre [short fiction] 1 exemplar
La riunione (in I Premi Hugo 1955-1975) 1 exemplar
Regresso a casa 1 exemplar
O projecto Oort - vol. 2 1 exemplar
Unterwegs in die Welt von morgen (111): Eine Handvoll Venus und Ehrbare Kaufleute - Hestia 1 exemplar
Regresso a casa - vol. 2 1 exemplar
Кометы Оорта / Рассказы 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories — Bidragsgivare — 1,879 exemplar
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two B: The Greatest Science Fiction Novellas of All Time (1973) — Bidragsgivare — 775 exemplar
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 507 exemplar
The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990 (1993) — Bidragsgivare — 308 exemplar
The Best of the Best, Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels (2007) — Bidragsgivare — 199 exemplar
Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown: A Treasury of Bizarre Tales Old and New (1993) — Bidragsgivare — 194 exemplar
What Might Have Been, Volumes 1 & 2: Alternate Empires, Alternate Heroes (1989) — Bidragsgivare — 180 exemplar
Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction, Volume 9: Robots (1989) — Bidragsgivare — 111 exemplar
Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year Fourth Annual Collection (1975) — Bidragsgivare — 80 exemplar
Bodyguard and Four Other Short Science Fiction Novels from Galaxy (1960) — Inledning; Bidragsgivare — 78 exemplar
The Mammoth Book of Vintage Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1950s (1990) — Författare — 70 exemplar
Nebula Awards 28: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year (1994) — Bidragsgivare — 62 exemplar
Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year Second Annual Collection (1973) — Bidragsgivare — 60 exemplar
Lovers & Other Monsters: A Collection of Amorous Tales of Fantasy, Old and New (1992) — Bidragsgivare — 57 exemplar
Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year Third Annual Collection (1974) — Bidragsgivare — 56 exemplar
Tales from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Short Stories for Young Adults (1986) — Bidragsgivare — 40 exemplar
Rediscoveries II: Important Writers Select Their Favorite Works of Neglected Fiction (1988) — Bidragsgivare — 29 exemplar
A Cross of Centuries: Twenty-five Imaginative Tales About the Christ (2007) — Bidragsgivare — 28 exemplar
Nebula Awards 20: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 1984 (1985) — Bidragsgivare — 27 exemplar
Maailma mielen mukaan : yksitoista tieteisnovellia kolmeltatoista sci-fi -sarjan kirjailijalta (1986) — Bidragsgivare — 21 exemplar
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1961, Vol. 21, No. 4 (1961) — Bidragsgivare — 20 exemplar
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. LXXXIX, No. 1 (March 1972) (1972) — Bidragsgivare — 19 exemplar
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1976, Vol. 50, No. 6 (1976) — Bidragsgivare — 16 exemplar
Analog Science Fiction and Fact: Vol. CXIV, No. 1 & 2 (January 1994) (1994) — Författare — 16 exemplar
Orbit: The Best of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (Graphic Science Fiction, No 1) (1990) — Bidragsgivare; Bidragsgivare — 14 exemplar
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July 1972, Vol. 43, No. 1 (1972) — Författare — 14 exemplar
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 9, No. 1 [January 1985] (1985) — Bidragsgivare — 13 exemplar
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1988, Vol. 75, No. 4 (1988) — Författare — 13 exemplar
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 9, No. 10 [October 1985] (1985) — Bidragsgivare — 13 exemplar
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 3, No. 12 [December 1979] (1979) — Bidragsgivare — 13 exemplar
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 3, No. 3 [March 1979] (1979) — Bidragsgivare — 12 exemplar
Worlds of If Science Fiction 165, March/April 1973 (Vol. 21, No. 10) (1973) — Författare — 12 exemplar
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May 1983, Vol. 64, No. 5 (1983) — Bidragsgivare — 12 exemplar
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. CIV, No. 12 (December 1984) (1984) — Bidragsgivare — 12 exemplar
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 10, No. 11 [November 1986] (1986) — Författare — 11 exemplar
Worlds of If Science Fiction 161, July/August 1972 (Vol. 21, No. 6) (1972) — Bidragsgivare — 11 exemplar
Galaxy Science Fiction 1973 November, Vol. 34, No. 2 (1973) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor — 10 exemplar
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1989, Vol. 77, No. 4 (1989) — Författare — 10 exemplar
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction January 1963, Vol. 24, No. 1 (1963) — Bidragsgivare — 7 exemplar
Galerij der giganten 5 de beste science-fiction verhalen — Bidragsgivare — 7 exemplar
No Room for Man: Population and the Future Through Science-Fiction (1979) — Bidragsgivare — 5 exemplar
Tider skal komme : 15 langtidsvarsler : en science fiction-antologi — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar
Analog Science Fact/Science Fiction 1961 December (British Edition) (1961) — Bidragsgivare — 3 exemplar
Science Fiction Stories July 1956 — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Den ¤elektriske myre og andre science fiction-fortællinger (1984) — Författare, vissa utgåvor — 2 exemplar
Zärtlich war die Zukunft: Liebesgeschichten aus der Welt von morgen (1989) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Pohl, Frederik George, Jr.
- Andra namn
- Pohl, Fred
McCann, Edson (with Lester del Rey)
MacCreigh, James
Mason, Ernst
Satterfield, Charles (with Lester del Rey)
Park, Jordan (with C. M. Kornbluth) (visa alla 7)
Flehr, Paul - Födelsedag
- 1919-11-26
- Avled
- 2013-09-02
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- New York, New York, USA
- Dödsort
- Palatine, Illinois, USA
- Dödsorsak
- Respiratory failure
- Bostadsorter
- New York, New York, USA
Palatine, Illinois, USA
Middletown, New Jersey, USA - Yrken
- novelist
short-story writer
literary agent
editor
advertising copywriter - Relationer
- Pohl-Weary, Emily (granddaughter)
LesTina, Dorothy (wife, 1945-1947|divorced)
Merril, Judith (wife, 1949-1952|divorced)
Hull, Elizabeth A. (wife, 1984-his death)
Perri, Leslie (wife, 1940-1944|divorced) - Organisationer
- Futurians
Young Communist League (1936)
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) - Priser och utmärkelser
- SFWA Grand Master (1992)
SF Hall Of Fame (Living Inductee, 1998)
E.E. Smith Memorial Award for Imaginative Fiction (1966)
Hugo Nominee (Professional Editor, Retro-Hugo, [1954], 2004) - Särskiljningsnotis
- The SF writer Frederik Pohl is not Frederick J. Pohl, who died in 1991 and wrote controversial books on exploration.
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Diskussioner
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Frederik Pohl 1919-2013 i Science Fiction Fans (september 2013)
70s novella, mind control helmets, people possessed and joyridden i Name that Book (september 2011)
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The first chapters deal with his childhood, discovery of science fiction at a young age and involvement in what eventually became science fiction fandom. The author writes about the Depression, the various editors and how he became an editor himself, for little money, at the age of nineteen. There are also anecdotes about John W Campbell, the famous editor of Astounding Science Fiction (and also the fantasy magazine, Unknown, although strangely that isn't mentioned at all from my recollection).
Interestingly, he also tells of how he was drawn into an organisation of young Communists. Eventually he parted company from them in disgust at how they changed from being anti-fascist to supporting Nazi Germany just because Stalin had signed a pact with Hitler. I fully expected him to later describe how he was hauled in front of the Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s but he actually says very little on the subject. Perhaps they were only interested in film writers?
Pohl joined the army in 1943 during WWII. While still in basic training in the States, he had requested his mother to send his portable typewriter to him. Shortly after being posted to a weather unit in Italy, he learned that she was ill. She had for all intents and purposes been a single parent, since his father was always off working somewhere but often on get-rich-quick schemes which would have worked out if he hadn't been tempted to invest in yet one more and subsequently lost everything. So I would have expected he and his mother to be close. He tried to find the Red Cross man for permission to send a telegram and maybe even get compassionate leave back to the States but then heard that his mother had died. He is curiously unemotional about this. He just found a quiet place to work on his typewriter and started a novel about life in New York.
Back in civvy street, he became an advertising copywriter while continuing to write SF short stories on the side. He also began helping his childhood friend, Dirk Wylie, who had set up a literary agency since he couldn't manage more strenuous work. Dirk had received a life threatening back injury in the war, from which he eventually died. Pohl carried on helping Dirk's widow run the agency and eventually took it over. By this time, book publishers were beginning to publish science fiction, creating a market for both reprints of serialised novels and novels written especially for book publication. One of the best of these was Ian Ballantine, founder of Ballantine Books, who Pohl worked with closely. Eventually, Pohl resigned his copywriting job to become a full-time agent. He represented many of the top writers of the period but after seven years somehow ended up going bust with thirty thousand dollars of debt which he eventually paid off over a number of years.
One of the interests of this book for me were all the cameo appearance of 'Golden Age' writers whose work I had come across in anthology reprints years ago, such as Fletcher Pratt, Henry Kuttner, Pohl's close friend Cyril Kornbluth, L Sprague de Camp and others. The more famous writers such as Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein also make cameo appearances.
There are interesting insights into the world of magazines both before WWII and afterwards, including the attitudes of those who owned them and the lengths editors had to go to in order to try to keep them afloat and to pay the writers a half-decent amount. The editors themselves were low paid. A lot of the stories were poor, mainly due to the poor pay rates. WWII paper shortages, plus the collapse of a major distributor which a speculator acquired cheaply to wind them up and sell off their large holding of property, put a lot of magazines out of business in the 50s. He had long been selling stories to Galaxy, one of the leaders of the field which managed to survive the collapse, but as the editor Horace Gold became ill, Pohl was drafted in to cover for him temporarily and ended up staying on as editor for nine years.
A main thread later in the book is the various marriages and relationships he and others in the SF community formed, a feature being that people divorced and then married someone else's other half. Even by WWII he had already been married twice, both marriages ending amicably after a couple of years. But his third marriage was to Judith Merrill, who I knew of chiefly as an editor of science fiction, but not about their marriage. Their breakup was not amicable, due to a custody battle over their daughter. Soon afterwards, he married again and by the end of the book was already heading towards yet another divorce.
Some out-of-date attitudes are on show. At one point, he mentions he has been 'liberated' and is aware of women's equality etc, yet later on refers to the average writer's spouse having issues with 'his' behaviour. ("Writing is the only job I know that your wife will nag you out of.... and more in the same vein, though he had favourable things to say about particular women writers.) There are a few references to gay men which come across as disapproving though possibly weren't meant as such; one reference early on to a "predatory" homosexual (the context being one which today's writers and readers would clearly differentiate as nothing to do with being gay but being the behaviour of a paedophile). There's also a mention of someone in the then-all-male fandom making an approach to someone and being 'greeted with such revulsion and horror that he cravenly crept back into line' though the author is quick to say he wasn't present. And there is one section where words unacceptable now are used, although it is in the context of saying how he was born a WASP and therefore not disadvantaged in the way these various groups were.
The book becomes a bit meandering towards the end. From discussion of his involvement on a long running radio chat show, he moves on to ESP and UFOs and how he looked into the bona fides of both. There's a discussion of the history of the Milford SF writing workshop, the illness suffered by his and Carol's (wife number 3) daughter, and the death of his friend Cyril Kornbluth, again of WWII complications. The book ends on a down-note, with various friends dying, relationships severed and his marriage becoming adrift. He was turning fifty and a trip to Japan was a high point, but he then became depressed as they moved on to Hawaii and then Los Angeles. Only science fiction had remained the constant love of his life.
An interesting book on the whole but a bit disjointed in places. Sometimes he shot ahead to later developments, then went back only to deal with the subject again later on. This made things a bit confusing, for example, a reference to the Hydra Club before reaching the part of the memoir where that was explained. As mentioned above, the ending is a bit of a damp squib. But there was enough interest to make this a 3 star rating for me.… (mer)