tor.com - 6/3/2009
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The Space Merchants is a short sharp book the way they used to make them. It’s a future that extrapolates the advertising techniques of the early fifties and makes a nightmare future out of them. It’s pointed and satirical, but it’s kind of a one note joke—extending how advertising is ...
The Altar at Midnight by C.M. Kornbluth - Free eBook
manybooks.net 8/7/2009 — ch or something, I saw it wasn't that. Not just the nose. Broken veins on his cheeks, too, and the funny eyes. He must have seen me look, because he slid back away from the light. The bartender shook my bottle of ale in front of me like a Swiss ...
A FREDERIK POHL HuffDuffer Feed
sffaudio.com 4/22/2009 —
Besides being an excellent blogger (at 90 years old), FREDERIK POHL is also an absolutely amazing SF writer. I’ve added a new HuffDuffer feed to his AUTHOR PAGE .
Be sure to have a listen, at the very least, to the first item in the feed ( SPIDER ROBINSON ’s amazing reading of ...
Locus Online: Frederik Pohl interview excerpts
locusmag.com 1/29/2009 — Frederik Pohl, born 1919 in New York City, was one of the earliest SF fans, attending the first SF conference in Philadelphia in 1936, and was one of the founders of the Futurians and the Hydra Club. He served in the Italian theaters of World War II ...
On July 20th, 1969...by Frederik Pohl
tor.com 7/21/2009 —
40 years ago, like pretty much everybody in the world, I was glued to my TV set watching Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin set their spacecraft down on the surface of the Moon, and then go out and walk around on it and, mission accomplished, take ...
The Hated by Frederik Pohl - Free eBook
manybooks.net 7/25/2009 — Then the door of the men's room opened. He came out. He looked lousy . Eyes all red-rimmed and his hair falling out--the poor crumb couldn't have been over twenty-nine. He shrieked, "You!" He called me a million names. He said, "You thieving rat, I'll ...
Author Frederik Pohl honoured by high school from which he dropped out
theendoftheuniverse.ca 8/26/2009 — Frederik Pohl is one of the biggest names in science fiction and his brand of SF is pretty hard stuff, so it might surprise you to learn that he's a high school dropout.
The Brooklyn school that he never completed recently discovered he was an ...
Frederik Pohl and the Galaxy/IF era
visionsofparadise.blogspot.com 1/20/2009 — The current issue of Locus has a long article by Frederik Pohl in which he talks about his career in science fiction, and it was very interesting since Pohl has been involved in sf since the very early days of the genre. Pohl was also the editor of ...