7 books by Frederik Pohl
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Overview: Frederik Pohl (1919 – 2013)
was an American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning over seventy years. From about 1959 until 1969, Pohl edited Galaxy magazine and its sister magazine IF winning the Hugo for IF three years in a row. His writing also won him three Hugos and multiple Nebula Awards. He became a Nebula Grand Master in 1993.
Genre: Sci-Fi
All the Lives He Led
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.
Alternating Currents
Alternating Currents is a collection of science fiction stories by Frederik Pohl.
Contents:
– The Children of Night
– The Ghost Maker
– Let the Ants Try
– Pythias
– The Mapmakers
– Rafferty’s Reasons
– Target One
– Grandy Devil
– The Tunnel Under the World
– What to Do Till the Analyst Comes
In the Problem Pit
What will happen to us?
When can we replace ourselves with unfailing machines just like us?
When can we experience the ultimate ecstasy from a little pill?
When can we trip back in time to “correct” the errors of history?
When all our problems are solved—except the deadly ones we never thought of?
Outnumbering the Dead
Several centuries in the future, human society has reached a state of near-utopia. All communicable diseases have been eradicated and people live affluent, fulfilled lives. Lukewarm fusion provides almost limitless energy supplies, making space travel, even travel to far-distant stars, cheap and easy. And people have time for such pleasure cruises now, for a simple prebirth operation ensures the body will not age. Other than fatal accidents, there’s every reason to expect to live forever.
Perfect – except perfection somehow never includes everyone, and Rafiel’s perfect world is marred by the fact that he is aging and he will die.
In a peaceful world of ten trillion immortals, what is it that gives life meaning?
Poignant and insightful, Outnumbering the Dead is a tale of quiet beauty, gentle humor, and exceptional brilliance from one of the greatest science fiction writers of this century.
Stopping at Slowyear
Most of the galaxy has outgrown the need for the antiquated trading ship Nordvik, lumbering through space with its stock of equally outdated appliances, data, genetic material, and crafts made by the crew to keep from going crazy between stops. But Slowyear – a rarely visited planet at the edge of colonized space, with a population that must live underground during bitter winters lasting five Earth-time years – holds promise. Particularly for crew member Mercy MacDonald, who is restless. Having lived and worked on the Nordvik for most of her life, she now wants a real home. When she lands on Slowyear at the height of its passionate springtime, then meets and falls in love with celebrated entertainer and rising politician Irakaho Blundy Spenotex, Mercy is convinced she’s found that home. But then she learns Slowyear’s secret…and her life and the lives of all the Nordvik’s crew changed suddenly and forever.
SYZYGY
Scientists and psychics are predicting eruptions and earthquakes that could devastate half the earth, caused by a rare conjunction of the planets. It’s called SYZYGY.
A ruthless land speculator decides to make a quick killing by starting a panic. Then others cash in on the Syzygy Effect for their own greed: a crackpot cult preaching doom, a politician out for votes, a quack scientist out to make the headlines.
When California is paralyzed by brush fires and flash floods, hysteria explodes. Only a dedicated scientist and a beautiful NASA astrophysicist can prevent massive destruction. But they’re up against forces that will stop at nothing to keep the truth from getting out.
The Cool War
Fred Pohl, multiple winner of science-fiction’s top awards, presents a breathtaking romp through the energy-poor world of the 2020s – a gripping chase-intrigue novel with a highly unlikely stand-in for James Bond.
One day, the Reverend Hornswell Hake had nothing worse to contend with than the customary power shortages and his routine pastoral chores, such as counseling the vivacious Alys Brant – and her husbands and wife. At nearly forty, his life was placid, almost humdrum.
The very next day, Horny Hake was first enlisted as an unwilling agent of the Team – secret successor to the long-discredited CIA – and then courted by an anti-Team underground group. In practically no time at all, Horny and Alys were touring Europe on a mission about which he knew zip, except that it was a new move in the Cool War, the worldwide campaign of sabotage that had replaced actual combat.
For the team and its opponents, though, the Cool War could be as perilous as any hot one, as Horny Hake discovered when he came up against
*Leota, lovely leader of the underground cabal, dedicated to destroying the Team;
*Yosper, the Bible-thumping, foul-mouthed nonogenarian killer;
*The Reddi twins, professional terrorists who turned up in the oddest places at the worst times and always managed to make Horny’s life miserable;
*And Pegleg, master of such lethal toys as the Bulgarian Brolly and the Peruvian Pen.
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