Platinum Pohl: The Collected Best Stories
Jan 2007 · Macmillan + ORM
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“An essential treasury” of sci-fi short fiction including the story introducing the Heechee aliens of the Hugo, Nebula, and Campbell Award-winning Gateway (Booklist).
Acclaimed for his novels, Frederik Pohl is also a master of the science fiction short story. Now, for the first time, he has gathered together the best of his many stories in Platinum Pohl.
First published in the 1930s and spanning the decades, these tales are in their way a living history of science fiction. A keen observer of the human condition and the world that is shaped by it, Pohl’s stories reflect the currents of political movements, social trends, major events that have shaken the world. Yet at their core, all his stories are most acutely concerned with people.
Included are Pohl’s two Hugo Award–winning stories, “Fermi and Frost” and “The Meeting” (with C. M. Kornbluth), along with such classic novellas as the powerful “The Gold at the Starbow’s End” and “The Greening of Bed-Stuy,” as well as acclaimed stories as “Servant of the People,” “Shaffery Among the Immortals,” and “Growing Up in Edge City” and many more.
A wonderful collection of thought-provoking, entertaining science fiction by a Grand Master of Science Fiction award-winning author.
“These 30 stories stand out for their gritty, straightforward style and for their insightful ideas about our political, social and ecological future.” —Publisher Weekly
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Rottie Weiler
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April 14, 2025
The words and story was all mixed up on the pages.
About the author
Bestselling, multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning SF author, Frederik Pohl has written over thirty successful novels, has been the award-winning editor of SF magazines and anthologies, and has collaborated on classic SF novels such as The Space Merchants as well as having written such fine solo novels as Gateway, Beyond the Blue Event Horizon, Man Plus, and The Boy Who Would Live Forever. Mr. Pohl is a former president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, and has been active in myriad other ways in the field for many decades. He lives in Palatine, Illinois.
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