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Gateway

Author : Frederik Pohl

Publisher : Orion Publishing Group

Page : 288 pages

File Size : 29,36 MB

Release : 2010

Category : Human-alien encounters

ISBN : 9780575094239

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Wealth . . . or death. Those were the choices Gateway offered. Humans had discovered this artificial spaceport, full of working interstellar ships left behind by the mysterious, vanished Heechee. Their destinations are preprogrammed. They are easy to operate, but impossible to control. Some came back with discoveries which made their intrepid pilots rich; others returned with their remains barely identifiable. It was the ultimate game of Russian roulette, but in this resource-starved future there was no shortage of desperate volunteers.



Beyond the Blue Event Horizon

Author : Frederik Pohl

Publisher : Orb Books

Page : 318 pages

File Size : 16,74 MB

Release : 2013-11-12

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1466806354

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Frederik Pohl was on a streak when this Hugo Award–finalist novel was published in 1980. Now back in print after an absence of nearly a decade, this unique science fiction novel is as fresh and entertaining as ever. The story begins when the hero of Gateway finances an expedition to a distant alien spaceship that may end famine forever. On the ship, the explorers find a human boy, and evidence that reveals a powerful alien civilization is thriving on a transport ship headed right for Earth.... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.



Frederik Pohl

Author : Michael R Page

Publisher : University of Illinois Press

Page : 264 pages

File Size : 24,12 MB

Release : 2015-09-22

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9780252081156

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One of science fiction's undisputed grandmasters, Frederik Pohl built an astonishing career that spanned more than seven decades. Along the way he won millions of readers and seemingly as many awards while producing novels, short stories, and essays that left a profound mark on the genre. In this first-of-its-kind study, Michael R. Page traces Pohl's journey as an author but also uncovers his role as a transformative figure who shaped the genre as a literary agent, book editor, and in Gardner Dozois' words, "quite probably the best SF magazine editor who ever lived."



The Space Merchants

Author : Frederik Pohl

Publisher : Gollancz

Page : 202 pages

File Size : 24,83 MB

Release : 1953

Category : Advertising

ISBN :

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It is the 20th Century, an advertisement-drenched world in which the big ad agencies dominate governments and everything else. Now Schoken Associates, one of the big players, has a new challenge for star copywriter Mitch Courtenay. Volunteers are needed to colonise Venus. It's a hellhole, and nobody who knew anything about it would dream of signing up. But by the time Mitch has finished, they will be queuing to get on board the spaceships.



Search the Sky

Author : Frederik Pohl

Publisher : Jovian Press

Page : 127 pages

File Size : 25,29 MB

Release : 2017-12-13

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1537806726

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Something Was Very Wrong, Out There Among The Stars...The interstellar transport had touched down on six other colony worlds - and all six had been devoid of human life. Where was everybody? It was almost as if humankind, when separated by cosmic distances from Mother Earth, could not survive.





The Far Shore of Time

Author : Frederik Pohl

Publisher : Macmillan

Page : 162 pages

File Size : 49,70 MB

Release : 2000-03-15

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9780812577839

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Federal agent Dan Dannerman is captured by aliens, cloned twice and made to undergo painful experiments. Dannerman--all three of him--escapes to Earth and mounts an attack to avenge his inhuman treatment. A look at relations between clones by the author of The Siege of Eternity.



Farthest Star

Author : Frederik Pohl

Publisher : Hachette UK

Page : 176 pages

File Size : 39,93 MB

Release : 2013-07-25

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0575111801

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There was no shortage of danger on Cuckoo. 20,000 light years away, the enormous flat surface of Cuckoo travelling at one-sixth the speed of light aimed arrow-straight at the galaxy. Sun One sent the space probe Aurora with a crew of replicates, both human and alien, to intercept. It was a doomed ship. Yet from that mission came Ground Station One, peopled by tachyon transmission, its crew impatient to explore the menace of Cuckoo. Towards them flee a young nomadic wingman, a redbearded giant, and a replicate Ben Yale Pertin intent only on survival, until a frightened girl screams for help...



Tales From The Planet Earth

Author : Frederik Pohl

Publisher : Macmillan

Page : 296 pages

File Size : 36,3 MB

Release : 1986-10-15

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9780312784201

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A novel with nineteen authors. In this collaborative novel of international science fiction, Frederik Pohl and Elizabeth Anne Hull have compiled nineteen facets of a single dilemma, the fantastic situation of human beings and aliens coexisting in one body. Each story's plot is organized around this single theme, but the voices that color each telling come from all corners of the world.



The World at the End of Time

Author : Frederik Pohl

Publisher : Del Rey

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 18,43 MB

Release : 1991

Category : Science fiction

ISBN : 9780345371973

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Wan-To was the oldest and must powerful intelligence in the universe, a being who played with star systems as a child plays with marbles. Matter occupied so tiny a part of his vast awareness that humans were utterly beneath his notice. The colonists of Newmanhome first suffered the effects of Wan-To's games when their planet's stars began to shift, the climate began to cool down, and the colony was forced into a desperate struggle to survive. Viktor Sorricaine was determined to discover what force had suddenly sent his world hurtling toward the ends of the universe. And the answer was something beyond the scope of his imagination -- even if he lived for 4000 years...