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Platinum Pohl : The Collected Best Stories
by PohlEdition:
1st
ISBN13:
9780312875275
ISBN10:
0312875274
Format:
Hardcover
Pub. Date:
11/29/2005
Publisher(s):
Tor Books
List Price: $27.95
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Summary
In his more-than-fifty-year career, Frederik Pohl has won the Hugo, Nebula, and all the other major SF awards multiple times. A towering figure of the genre as both author and editor, Pohls short fiction offers readers a fascinating array of wonders. This definitive collection, gathering his finest work, is a treasury of brilliantly entertaining science fiction. It includes his Hugo and Nebula finalist novella The Gold at the Starbows End; the Nebula finalists Shaffery Among the Imortals, Growing Up in Edge City, and The Greening of BedStuy; the Hugo finalist Servant of the People; the Hugo Awardwinning tales The Meeting (a collaboration with C. M. Kornbluth) and Fermi and Frost; and many others. In this comprehensive, outstanding collection of memorable stories, Pohls masterful storytelling and imagination draw readers into delightful worlds: some familiar, some alien, but all compulsively inviting in their sense of wonder. Thats why its called Platinum Pohlonly the highest standards of quality apply.
Author Biography
Bestselling, multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning SF author, Frederik Pohl has written over thirty successful novels, has been the award-winning editor of SF magazines and anthologies, and has collaborated on classic SF novels such as The Space Merchants as well as having written such fine solo novels as Gateway, Beyond the Blue Event Horizon, Man Plus, and The Boy Who Would Live Forever. Mr. Pohl is a former president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, and has been active in myriad other ways in the field for many decades. He lives in Palatine, Illinois.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 9 |
| The Merchants of Venus | p. 13 |
| The Things That Happen | p. 59 |
| The High Test | p. 74 |
| My Lady Green Sleeves | p. 83 |
| The Kindly Isle | p. 108 |
| The Middle of Nowhere | p. 124 |
| I Remember a Winter | p. 136 |
| The Greening of Bed-Stuy | p. 141 |
| To See Another Mountain | p. 180 |
| The Mapmakers | p. 193 |
| Spending a Day at the Lottery Fair | p. 216 |
| The Celebrated No-Hit Inning | p. 223 |
| Some Joys Under the Star | p. 233 |
| Servant of the People | p. 242 |
| Waiting for the Olympians | p. 255 |
| Criticality | p. 284 |
| Shaffery Among the Immortals | p. 294 |
| The Day the Icicle Works Closed | p. 304 |
| Saucery | p. 327 |
| The Gold at the Starbow's End | p. 336 |
| Growing Up in Edge City | p. 372 |
| The Knights of Arthur | p. 380 |
| Creation Myths of the Recently Extinct | p. 407 |
| The Meeting (with C. M. Kornbluth) | p. 409 |
| Let the Ants Try | p. 417 |
| Speed Trap | p. 425 |
| The Day the Martians Came | p. 433 |
| Day Million | p. 438 |
| The Mayor of Mare Tranq | p. 442 |
| Fermi and Frost | p. 448 |
| Afterword: Fifty Years and Counting | p. 459 |
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