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Frederik George Pohl, Jr. (born November 26, 1919) is an American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning over seventy years — from his first published work, "Elegy to a Dead Planet: Luna" (1937), to his most recent novel, All the Lives He Led (2011).
From about 1959 until 1969, Pohl edited Galaxy and its sister magazine If; the latter won three successive annual Hugo Awards as the year's best professional magazine. His 1977 novel Gateway won four "year's best novel" awards: the Hugo voted by convention participants, the Locus voted by magazine subscribers, the Nebula voted by American science fiction writers, and the juried academic John W. Campbell Memorial Award. He won the Campbell Memorial Award again for the 1984 collection of novellas Years of the City, the only repeat winner in forty years. For his 1979 novel Jem, Pohl won a U.S. National Book Award in the one-year category Science Fiction. It was a finalist for three other year's best novel awards. In all he has won four Hugo and three Nebula Awards.
Pohl became a Nebula Grand Master in 1993 and he was inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 1998. He won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 2010, for his blog "The Way the Future Blogs".
Pohl is the son of Frederik George Pohl (a salesman) and Anna Jane Pohl. Pohl Sr. held a number of jobs, and the Pohls lived in such wide-flung locations as Texas, California, New Mexico and the Panama Canal Zone. The family settled in Brooklyn when Pohl was around seven.
He attended Brooklyn Technical High School, but dropped out at the age of 17. In 2009, he was awarded an honorary diploma from Brooklyn Tech.
While a teenager, he co-founded the New York–based Futurians fan group, and began lifelong friendships with Donald Wollheim, Isaac Asimov and others who would become important writers and editors. He published a science fiction fanzine called Mind of Man.
During 1936, Pohl joined the Young Communist League because of its positions for unions and against racial prejudice, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. He became president of the local Flatbush III Branch of the YCL in Brooklyn. Pohl has said that after the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of 1939, the party line changed and he could no longer support it, at which point he left.
Pohl served in the U.S. Army from April 1943 until November 1945, rising to sergeant as an air corps weatherman. After training in Illinois, Oklahoma, and Colorado, he primarily was stationed in Italy with the 456th Bombardment Group.
Pohl has been married five times. His first wife, Leslie Perri, was another Futurian; they were married in August 1940 but divorced in 1944. He then married Dorothy LesTina in Paris in August 1945 while both were serving in the military in Europe; the marriage ended in 1947. During 1948, he married Judith Merril; they had a daughter, Ann. Pohl and Merril divorced in 1952. In 1953, he married Carol M. Ulf Stanton, with whom he had three children and collaborated on several books; they separated in 1977 and were divorced in 1983. Since 1984, Pohl has been married to science-fiction expert and academic Elizabeth Anne Hull, PhD.
He fathered four children: Ann (m. Walter Weary), Frederik III (deceased), Frederik IV and Kathy. Grandchildren include Canadian writer Emily Pohl-Weary and chef Tobias Pohl-Weary.
Since 1984, he has lived in Palatine, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. He was previously a resident of Middletown, New Jersey.
Pohl began writing in the late 1930s, using pseudonyms for most of his early works: Pohl's first published piece was a poem, "Elegy to a Dead Planet: Luna," in the October, 1937 issue of Amazing Stories credited to "Elton Andrews."
From 1939 to 1943, Pohl was the editor of two pulp magazines - Astonishing Stories and Super Science Stories. Stories by Pohl often appeared in these magazines, but never under his own name. Work written in collaboration with Cyril M. Kornbluth was credited to S.D. Gottesman or Scott Mariner; other collaborative work (with any combination of Kornbluth, Dirk Wylie or Robert A.W. Lownes) was credited to Paul Dennis Lavond. For Pohl's solo work, stories were credited to James MacCreigh (or, for one story only, Warren F. Howard.)
In his autobiography, Pohl says that he stopped editing the two magazines at roughly the time of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. Works by "Gottesman," "Lavond," and "MacCreigh" continued to appear in various SF pulp magazines throughout the 1940s.
After World War II, Pohl worked as an advertising copywriter and then as a copywriter and book editor for Popular Science.
Pohl started a career as a literary agent in 1937, but it was a sideline for him until after WWII, when he began doing it full time. He ended up "representing more than half the successful writers in science fiction" — for a short time, he was the only agent Isaac Asimov ever had — though his agency did not succeed financially, and he closed it down in the early 1950s.
In the mid-1970s, Pohl acquired and edited novels for Bantam Books, published as "Frederik Pohl Selections"; notable were Samuel R. Delany's Dhalgren and Joanna Russ's The Female Man. Also in the 1970s, Pohl reemerged as a novel writer in his own right, with books such as Man Plus and the Heechee series. He won back-to-back Nebula awards with Man Plus in 1976 and Gateway, the first Heechee novel, in 1977. Gateway also won the 1978 Hugo Award for Best Novel. Two of his stories have also earned him Hugo awards: "The Meeting" (with Kornbluth) tied in 1973 and "Fermi and Frost" won in 1986. Another award-winning novel is Jem (1980), winner of the National Book Award.
Pohl continues to write. He finished a novel begun by Arthur C. Clarke, The Last Theorem, which was published on August 5, 2008. Pohl's latest novel, All the Lives He Led, was released on April 12, 2011.
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Heechee Series
Frederik Pohl - Gateway (read by Oliver Wyman)
Frederik Pohl - Beyond The Blue Event Horizon (read by Oliver Wyman)
Frederik Pohl - Heechee Rendezvous (read by Oliver Wyman)
Frederik Pohl - The Annals Of The Heechee (read by Oliver Wyman)
Frederik Pohl - The Boy Who Would Live Forever (read by Oliver Wyman)
The Space Merchants series
Frederik Pohl - The Space Merchants (read by Dan Bittner)
Frederik Pohl - The Merchants' War (read by Clifford Thomason)
Eschaton Sequence series
Frederik Pohl - The Other End Of Time (read by George Guidall)
Frederik Pohl - The Siege Of Eternity (read by Rick Rohan)
Frederik Pohl - The Far Shore Of Time (read by Rick Rohan)
Other
Frederik Pohl - Man Plus (read by Dennis Boutsikaris)
Frederik Pohl - The World At The End Of Time (read by William Dufris)
Frederik Pohl - Black Star Rising (read by Bruce Huntey)
Frederik Pohl - The Coming Of The Quantum Cats (read by Arthur Blake)
Frederik Pohl - Starburst (read by John Polk)
Frederik Pohl - Homegoing (read by Gary Tipton)
Frederik Pohl - Wolfbane (read by Mark Douglas Nelson)
Frederik Pohl - Chernobyl (read by Noah Siegel)
Frederik Pohl - The Cool War (read by Gordon Gould)
Frederik Pohl - Narabedla Ltd. (read by Roy Avers)
Frederik Pohl - All The Lives He Led (read by Oliver Wyman)
Frederik Pohl - A Plague Of Pythons (read by Mark Douglas Nelson)
Frederik Pohl - The Voices Of Heaven (read by Johnny Heller)
Frederik Pohl - O Pioneer! (read by Richard Hauenstein)
Frederik Pohl - Mining The Oort (read by James Wright)
Frederik Pohl - The Singers Of Time (read by James DeLotel)
Frederik Pohl - Preferred Risk (read by Mark Douglas Nelson)
Frederik Pohl - The Last Theorem (read by Mark Bramhall)
Frederik Pohl - Our Angry Earth (read by Randy Atcher)
Frederik Pohl - Chasing Science (read by Steve Carpenter)
Frederik Pohl - Platinum Pohl (read by Various)
Frederik Pohl - The Day The Martians Came (read by Laura Generalli)
Frederik Pohl - The Best Of Frederik Pohl (read by Various)
Frederik Pohl - The Years Of The City (read by Joe Dunlop)
Frederik Pohl - Other Frederik Pohl Collection (read by Various)
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Heechee Series
http://rapidgator.net/file/0dee4049a6a870a9cef2165e4916da8b/Gateway.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/9a1a138b85902b67e70e95634c482432/Beyond_The_Blue_Event_Horizon.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/50dcb5d6050086bb3102f327a53277b8/Heechee_Rendezvous.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/81ed84824d6e1546015113570c4632f2/The_Annals_Of_The_Heechee.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/b80cf050e6b352293e88a346f45531ce/The_Boy_Who_Would_Live_Forever.rar.html
The Space Merchants series
http://rapidgator.net/file/229475eb34153fb3ff1f46790f56d56e/The_Space_Merchants.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/475e9c591ea116ac20d86c7b6e6352d6/The_Merchants_War.rar.html
Eschaton Sequence series
http://rapidgator.net/file/31c71cb9b1d25c9eca7b406691dad5e0/The_Other_End_Of_Time.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/73b66116f135d4d62d40116cdfc8bb76/The_Siege_Of_Eternity.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a0a99ca01220fea4decdb7305601fc3b/The_Far_Shore_Of_Time.rar.html
Other
http://rapidgator.net/file/ce19edffc85470d7912ca6a84a9197f5/Man_Plus.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/b07801360cea690a03bee791dfeca96b/The_World_At_The_End_Of_Time.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/2877da03f8b1419efbd789651548a2e8/Black_Star_Rising.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/7b7b7c8f2b330f4cb85d244eb1055a86/The_Coming_Of_The_Quantum_Cats.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/db6906c6313719c80d4e14579b80c995/Starburst.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1bf9da81b3d601652d85511c67073089/Homegoing.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/06672dd7afa266bbddb62c1257ed6991/Wolfbane.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/0a852fe51ca5916538f5f3d9eccaac68/Chernobyl.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/7486e88ad82d028b004ef212a419372c/The_Cool_War.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/2ad02ee0bcd7b295734ed77a0d4350ab/Narabedla_Ltd.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/ae694f18f59190ab841e90197c2a54ed/All_The_Lives_He_Led.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/31eff58f0fab6a1d7bbd20a33fa79539/A_Plague_Of_Pythons.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/406388c5c472b4586748bfb57a67066a/The_Voices_Of_Heaven.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/dcf62d83e23f355627d9a0ca792c8b11/O_Pioneer.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1ad89e01307bc4aa9b60ac77311ca87b/Mining_The_Oort.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/c73cbfa95783ea137aa95881b272a35d/The_Singers_Of_Time.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/120f8bc73ab27097474f2c27d6b7c544/Preferred_Risk.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/6469628b3f2829cf6dd89587b0279a1f/The_Last_Theorem.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/01b34ae81a5c032f2463d79ea0c06789/Our_Angry_Earth.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/702bf3448ede0de00fbf61239502f173/Chasing_Science.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/99bba163dd820aa44f54bdd20e164759/Platinum_Pohl.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/32e72e9c58d6084aeec7dfef1c2aa45b/The_Day_The_Martians_Came.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/8ac53a9aef1a1220075720371a534412/The_Best_Of_Frederik_Pohl.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/5252a244d7bc3106aae98269b4a3dcee/The_Years_Of_The_City.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/ed6d73805a189afcb03ca5f9e5a8b804/Other_Frederik_Pohl_Collection.rar.html |
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