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9780312875275

Platinum Pohl : The Collected Best Stories

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  • ISBN13:

    9780312875275

  • ISBN10:

    0312875274

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-11-29
  • Publisher: Tor Books

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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

Introductionp. 9
The Merchants of Venusp. 13
The Things That Happenp. 59
The High Testp. 74
My Lady Green Sleevesp. 83
The Kindly Islep. 108
The Middle of Nowherep. 124
I Remember a Winterp. 136
The Greening of Bed-Stuyp. 141
To See Another Mountainp. 180
The Mapmakersp. 193
Spending a Day at the Lottery Fairp. 216
The Celebrated No-Hit Inningp. 223
Some Joys Under the Starp. 233
Servant of the Peoplep. 242
Waiting for the Olympiansp. 255
Criticalityp. 284
Shaffery Among the Immortalsp. 294
The Day the Icicle Works Closedp. 304
Sauceryp. 327
The Gold at the Starbow's Endp. 336
Growing Up in Edge Cityp. 372
The Knights of Arthurp. 380
Creation Myths of the Recently Extinctp. 407
The Meeting (with C. M. Kornbluth)p. 409
Let the Ants Tryp. 417
Speed Trapp. 425
The Day the Martians Camep. 433
Day Millionp. 438
The Mayor of Mare Tranqp. 442
Fermi and Frostp. 448
Afterword: Fifty Years and Countingp. 459
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