Frederik Pohl - Free Library Land Online

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In Book Two of the Heechee Saga, Robinette Broadhead is on his way to making a fortune by bankrolling an expedition to the Food Factory--a Heechee spaceship that can graze the cometary cloud and transfor the basic elements of the universe into untold quantities of food. But even as he gambles on the breakthrough technology, he is wracked with the guilt of losing his wife, poised forever at the "event horizon" of a black hole where Robin had abaondoned her. As more and more information comes back from the expedition, Robin grows ever hopeful that he can rescue his beloved Gelle-Klara Moynlin. After three and a years, the factory is discovered to work, and a human is found aboard. Robin's suffering may be just about over....
THE HEECHEE SAGA
Book One: Gateway
Book Two: Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
Book Three: Heechee Rendezvous
Book Four: The Annals of the Heechee From the Paperback edition.]]> Sun, 26 Oct 1980 18:14:25 +0300 Heechee Rendezvous https://classics.library.land/frederik-pohl/52866-heechee_rendezvous.html https://classics.library.land/frederik-pohl/52866-heechee_rendezvous.html

At last - the ultimate book in the renowned Heechee Saga!
Advanced Heechee technology had enabled Robinette Broadhead to live after death as a machine-stored personality, enjoying his life by flitting along the wires from party to party with a host of other machine-people. But suddenly his decadent existence ends when an all powerful alien race intent on the utter destruction of all intelligent life reappears after eons of silence, and threatens the lives of all heechee and humans. Even Robin, virtually immortal and with unlimited access to millennia of accumulated data, cannot discover how to stop these aliens. It began to seem that only a face to face meeting could determine the future of the entire universe....
THE HEECHEE SAGE
Book One: GATEWAY
Book Two: BEYOND THE BLUE EVENT HORIZON
Book Three: HEECHEE RENDEZVOUS
Book Four: THE ANNALS OF THE HEECHEE
The Gateway Trip: TALES AND VIGNETTES OF THE HEECHEE ]]> Fri, 26 Oct 1984 18:14:25 +0300 Pohlstars https://classics.library.land/frederik-pohl/52870-pohlstars.html https://classics.library.land/frederik-pohl/52870-pohlstars.html

Contents:
The Sweet, Sad Queen of the Grazing Isles (1984)
The High Test (1983)
Spending a Day at the Lottery Fair (1983)
Second Coming (1983)
Enjoy, Enjoy (1974)
Growing Up in Edge City (1975)
We Purchased People (1974)
Rem the Rememberer (1977)
The Mother Trip (1975)
A Day in the Life of Able Charlie (1976)
The Way It Was (1977)
The Wizard-Masters of Peng-Shi Angle (1984)]]> Fri, 26 Oct 1984 18:14:25 +0300 The Years of the City https://classics.library.land/frederik-pohl/52860-the_years_of_the_city.html https://classics.library.land/frederik-pohl/52860-the_years_of_the_city.html

Frederik Pohl, one of the most honored science fiction writers of our time, gives us an extraordinary vision of a New York yet to come - from the wounded, struggling behemoth of tomorrow to the domed, atmospherically controlled megalopolis of the twenty-first century. In Pohl's prophetic novel, a woman awakes in another century, a man's eyes are replaced by radar, criminals are frozen for future justice, and hang gliders soar above Central Park. New York - long the symbol of turmoil, tragedy and brilliance, becomes a dazzling metaphor for mankind's future - and for the promise of civilizaton.]]> Fri, 26 Oct 1984 18:14:24 +0300 The Space Merchants https://classics.library.land/frederik-pohl/52864-the_space_merchants.html https://classics.library.land/frederik-pohl/52864-the_space_merchants.html

An alternate cover edition can be found here. It is the 22nd Century, an advertisement-drenched world in which the big ad agencies dominate governments and everything else. Now Schoken Associates, one of the big players, has a new challenge for star copywriter Mitch Courtenay. Volunteers are needed to colonise Venus. It's a hellhole, and nobody who knew anything about it would dream of signing up. But by the time Mitch has finished, they will be queuing to get on board the spaceships. Biographical Notes Pohl and Kornbluth started writing together as early as 1940, although both authors produced a wide variety of stories separately, under their own names and pseudonyms. Each wrote sections, starting where the other left off, and through long experience they developed an almost telepathic awareness of each other's intentions.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 The Gateway Trip https://classics.library.land/frederik-pohl/52847-the_gateway_trip.html https://classics.library.land/frederik-pohl/52847-the_gateway_trip.html

Here is a collection of short pieces about the many marvelous discoveries made by humankind using Heechee technology. Each piece includes illustrations by Kelly Freas.]]> Fri, 26 Oct 1990 18:14:23 +0300 Platinum Pohl: The Collected Best Stories https://classics.library.land/frederik-pohl/52850-platinum_pohl_the_collected_best_stories.html https://classics.library.land/frederik-pohl/52850-platinum_pohl_the_collected_best_stories.html

Platinum Pohl: The Collected Best Stories

Platinum Pohl is the first collection to collect all of the essential works of Frederik Pohl. First and foremost, Pohl is a master of the science fiction short story. For more than fifty years he has been writing incisive, entertaining SF stories, several hundred in all. Even while writing his bestselling triple-crown (Hugo, Nebula, Campbell Award) novel Gateway and the other Heechee Saga novels, he has always written short fiction. Now, for the first time, he has gathered together the best of his many stories. Spanning the decades, these tales are in their way a living history of science fiction. Because Frederik Pohl has been on the frontlines of the field since the halcyon days of the late 1930s, and has written short stories in every decade since. And because he has always been a keen observer of the human condition and the world that is shaped by it, his 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. All sorts of people. Some are people you'll love, some you'll hate. But you will need to find out what happens to the people who inhabit these stories. Because Frederik Pohl imbues his characters with a depth and individuality that makes them as real as people you see every day. Of course, he also employs a mind-boggling variety of scientific ideas and science fictional tropes with which his characters must interact. And he does it all with seemingly no effort at all. That's some trick. Not everyone can do that . . . but that's why he was named a Grand Master of Science Fiction by his peers in the Science Fiction Writers of America. Here are his 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," and stories such as "Servant of the People," "Shaffery Among the Immortals," and "Growing Up in Edge City," all finalists for major awards. And dozens of other tales, like the wonderful "The Mayor of Mare Tranq" and the provocative "The Day the Martians Landed" and many others. Altogether, a grand collection of thought-provoking, entertaining science fiction by one of the all-time greats!]]> Thu, 26 Oct 2000 18:14:23 +0300 The Voices of Heaven https://classics.library.land/frederik-pohl/52855-the_voices_of_heaven.html https://classics.library.land/frederik-pohl/52855-the_voices_of_heaven.html

Barry di Hoa had the good life on the Moon: steady work and the love of a good woman. But a rival slipped him a mickey, and he next awoke aboard Gerald Tscharka's ship as it neared the colony planet, Pava, eighteen light-years away. Pava was the frontier, complete with earthquakes, primitive conditions and hard physical work. The local "doctor" wouldn't treat Barry's little manic-depressive problem without medicine from the Moon. And the Millernarist colonists, who thought suicide was cool fun, didn't thrill him. Then he made friends with the leps. The large, caterpillar-like, odd-speaking gentle beasts were helping the humans to fashion a life on their planet. In their strange way, they knew things about Pava that might make the difference in the colony's survival. He started to believe he could really enjoy life in this fragile paradise. Except Tscharka was up to soemthing bad, something that would change eveyrthing. Barry knew only he could stop the mad captian, and the captain knew it, too. What neither knew was whether Barry could be manic enough to do it.]]> Wed, 26 Oct 1994 18:14:24 +0200 The Other End of Time https://classics.library.land/frederik-pohl/52867-the_other_end_of_time.html https://classics.library.land/frederik-pohl/52867-the_other_end_of_time.html

A distinguished veteran of science fiction, Frederik Pohl was one of the Futurians, a New York City club of the 1930s and '40s that included Isaac Asimov. Author of The Other End of Time and The World at the End of Time, his latest novel features Dan Dannerman, a poorly paid government agent in the not-too-distant future. Dannerman discovers aliens on an abandoned space station and is drawn into a conflict that encompasses the universe. According to one of its protagonists, the war Dannerman blunders into centers on what "ordinary people have been used to calling 'Heaven.'" A sequel is promised.]]> Sat, 26 Oct 1996 18:14:25 +0300 All the Lives He Led https://classics.library.land/frederik-pohl/52858-all_the_lives_he_led.html https://classics.library.land/frederik-pohl/52858-all_the_lives_he_led.html

Two thousand years after Pompeii’s destruction, a thriller of upheaval—volcanic and political—as only SF Grandmaster Frederik Pohl can write it!

With a keen eye for the humanity in any situation, science fiction icon Frederik Pohl has crafted a compelling new novel of a not-too-distant future we can only hope is merely science fiction. When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. it gave so little warning that Pompeiians were caught unawares, and many bodies were preserved in volcanic ash. Two thousand years later, in 2079, Pompeii is a popular theme park eagerly anticipating Il Giubeleo, the Jubilee celebration of the great anniversary. But Vesuvius is still capable of erupting, and even more threatening are terrorists who want to use the occasion to draw attention to their cause by creating a huge disaster. As the fateful day draws near, people from all over the world—workers, tourists, terrorists—caught in the shadow of the volcano will grapple with upheaval both natural and political.]]> Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:14:24 +0300 Man Plus https://classics.library.land/frederik-pohl/52851-man_plus.html https://classics.library.land/frederik-pohl/52851-man_plus.html

Ill luck made Roger Torraway the subject of the Man Plus Programme, but it was deliberate biological engineering which turned him into a monster -- a machine perfectly adapted to survive on Mars. For according to computer predictions, Mars is humankind's only alternative to extinction. But beneath his monstrous exterior, Torraway still carries a man's capacity for suffering.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2 https://classics.library.land/frederik-pohl/52862-star_science_fiction_stories_no_2.html https://classics.library.land/frederik-pohl/52862-star_science_fiction_stories_no_2.html

Contents
Introduction (Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2) • (1953) • essay by Frederik Pohl
Disappearing Act • (1953) • short story by Alfred Bester
It's a Good Life • (1953) • short story by Jerome Bixby
The Clinic • (1953) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
The Happiest Creature • [Quarantine] • (1953) • short story by Jack Williamson
The Odor of Thought • (1953) • short story by Robert Sheckley
F Y I • (1953) • short story by James Blish
Critical Factor • (1953) • short story by Hal Clement
The Remorseful • (1953) • short story by C.M. Kornbluth
A Pound of Cure • (1953) • short story by Lester del Rey
Friend of the Family • (1953) • short story by Richard Wilson
Hormones • (1953) • short story by Fletcher Pratt
Conquest • (1953) • short story by Anthony Boucher
The Purple Fields • (1953) • short story by Robert Crane
The Congruent People • (1953) • short story by Algis Budrys]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 The Boy Who Would Live Forever: A Novel of Gateway https://classics.library.land/frederik-pohl/52856-the_boy_who_would_live_forever_a_novel_of_gateway.html https://classics.library.land/frederik-pohl/52856-the_boy_who_would_live_forever_a_novel_of_gateway.html

The Boy Who Would Live Forever: A Novel of Gateway

A Triumphant New Gateway Adventure Twenty-five years after the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning bestseller Gateway, Frederik Pohl returns with a new Gateway novel. Filled with excitement and the sense of wonder that made Gateway a huge success, The Boy Who Would Live Forever is a memorable journey into the unknown. 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 and Heechee in the core from destruction by a crazed madman. Wan Enrique Santos-Smith, a man full of loathing for the Heechee, will stop at nothing to destroy the Heechee and their human friends. But Stan and Estrella, with the help of a fabulously wealthy philanthropist and the unique machine mind Marc Antony, are determined to thwart Wan's terrible plan. At stake is nothing less than the fate of all life in the galaxy. ]]> Fri, 26 Oct 1990 18:14:24 +0300 The Annals of the Heechee https://classics.library.land/frederik-pohl/52852-the_annals_of_the_heechee.html https://classics.library.land/frederik-pohl/52852-the_annals_of_the_heechee.html

Advanced Heechee technology had enabled Robinette Broadhead to live after death as a machine-stored personality, enjoying his life by flitting along the wires from party to party with a host of other machine-people. But suddenly his decadent existence ends when an all powerful alien race intent on the utter destruction of all intelligent life reappears after eons of silence, and threatens the lives of all heechee and humans. Even Robin, virtually immortal and with unlimited access to millennia of accumulated data, cannot discover how to stop these aliens. It began to seem that only a face to face meeting could determine the future of the entire universe....]]> Mon, 26 Oct 1987 18:14:23 +0300