Authors: Frederik Pohl
PLATINUM POHL (86 page)
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Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine,
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FREDERIK POHL
has written science fiction for more than fifty years. His novel
Gateway
won the Hugo, Nebula, and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards for best SF novel.
Man Plus
won the Nebula Award, and altogether he has won four Hugo Awards and two Nebula Awards, among his many awards. His most recent novel is
The Boy Who Would Live Forever.
has written science fiction for more than fifty years. His novel
Gateway
won the Hugo, Nebula, and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards for best SF novel.
Man Plus
won the Nebula Award, and altogether he has won four Hugo Awards and two Nebula Awards, among his many awards. His most recent novel is
The Boy Who Would Live Forever.
In addition to his solo fiction, Pohl has collaborated with other writers, including C. M. Kornbluth, Lester del Rey, and Jack Williamson. One Pohl-Kornbluth collaboration,
The Space Merchants,
is a bestselling classic of satiric science fiction.
The Starchild Trilogy
with Williamson is one of the more notable collaborations in the field.
The Space Merchants,
is a bestselling classic of satiric science fiction.
The Starchild Trilogy
with Williamson is one of the more notable collaborations in the field.
Pohl became a magazine editor when still a teenager. In the 1960s he piloted
Worlds of If
to three successive Hugos for best magazine. He has edited original-story anthologies, notably the seminal
Star
series of the early 1950s. Among his other activities in the field, he has been a literary agent, has edited lines of science fiction books, and has been president of the Science Fiction Writers of America. He and his wife, Elizabeth Anne Hull, an academic active in the Science Fiction Research Association, live in Palatine, Illinois.
Worlds of If
to three successive Hugos for best magazine. He has edited original-story anthologies, notably the seminal
Star
series of the early 1950s. Among his other activities in the field, he has been a literary agent, has edited lines of science fiction books, and has been president of the Science Fiction Writers of America. He and his wife, Elizabeth Anne Hull, an academic active in the Science Fiction Research Association, live in Palatine, Illinois.
This is a work of fiction. All the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in these stories are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously
PLATINUM POHL: THE COLLECTED BEST STORIES
Copyright © 2005 by Frederik Pohl
Introduction copyright © 2005 by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC.
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form.
First publication and copyright information for reprinted material appears on pages 461 through 463, which constitute a continuation of this copyright page.
Edited by James Frenkel
An Orb Book
Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
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New York, NY 10010
Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
175 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10010
eISBN 9781466826441
First eBook Edition : July 2012
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Pohl, Frederik,
Platinum Pohl : the collected best stories / Frederik Pohl.
p. cm.
“A Tom Doherty Associates book.”
ISBN-13: 978-0-765-30145-1
ISBN-10: 0-765-30145-8
ISBN-10: 0-765-30145-8
1. Science fiction, American. I. Title.
PS3566.036A6 2005
813’.54—dc22
813’.54—dc22
2005043965
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