Platinum Pohl
| Title | Platinum Pohl
the collected best stories |
|---|---|
| Author | Frederik Pohl |
| Publication | Orb |
| Size | 463p |
| Language |  ENG |
| ISBN | 9780765301451 |
| Topics |
American fiction--Science fiction |
| Notes | Description : Platinum Pohl : the collected best stories / Frederik Pohl. === Frederik Pohl, the bestselling author of The Boy Who Would Live Forever, is famous for his novels, but first and foremost, he 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. Contents: Introduction / by James Frenkel -- The merchants of Venus -- The things that happen -- The high test -- My lady Green Sleeves -- The kindly isle -- The middle of nowhere -- I remember a winter -- The greening of Bed-Stuy -- To see another mountain -- The mapmakers -- Spending a day at the lottery fair -- The celebrated no-hit inning -- Some joys under the star -- Servant of the people -- Waiting for the Olympians -- Criticality -- Shaffery among the immortals -- The day the Icicle Works closed -- Saucery -- The gold at the Starbow’s End -- Growing up in Edge City -- The knights of Arthur -- Creation myths of the recently extinct -- The meeting / with C.M. Kornbluth -- Let the ants try -- Speed trap -- The day the Martians came -- Day million -- The mayor of Mare Tranq -- Fermi and Frost -- Afterword : fifty years and counting. |
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