Frederik Pohl
Frederik Pohl (1919- ) is an American science fiction writer and editor. In early adulthood, he lived in New York, and was a member of the Futurians fan group.
He was a friend and collabarator with C.M. Kornbluth, co-authoring a number of short stories with him and several novels, including a dystopian satire of a world ruled by the advertising agencies, The Space Merchants. Besides the Space Merchants, a number of his short stories were notable for a satirical look at consumerism and advertising in the 1950s and 1960s: The Wizard of Pung's Corner, where flashy, overcomplex military hardware proves useless against farmers with shotguns, and The Tunnel Under the World, where an entire community is held captive by advertising researchers (this one-line summary omits several plot twists).
His more recent work such as the Heechee series and Man Plus continues to amaze, with his imagination as fresh as ever.
He edited Galaxy science fiction magazine in the 1960s.
- Slave Ship
- Wolfbane (with Cyril M. Kornbluth)
- The Space Merchants (with Cyril M. Kornbluth)
- Gladiator at Law (with Cyril M. Kornbluth)
- Search the Sky (with Cyril M. Kornbluth)
- Drunkards Walk
- The Age of the Pussyfoot
- Man Plus
- The Heechee series:
- Gateway (winner of the Hugo award)
- Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
- Heechee rendezvous
- Annals of the Heechee
- Narabedla
He has published an autobiography, The Way the Future Was
Frederik Pohl is four times winner of the Hugo award. His works include not only science fiction but articles for Playboy and Family Circle. His work is the biography of the Roman emperor Tiberious for the Encyclopedia Britannica.