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Frederik George Pohl Jr. (/ p oʊ l /; November 26, 1919 – September 2, 2013) was an American science-fiction writer, editor, and fan, with a career spanning nearly 75 years—from his first published work, the 1937 poem "Elegy to a Dead Satellite: Luna", to the 2011 novel All the Lives He Led. From about 1959 until 1969, Pohl edited Galaxy and its sister magazine If; the latter won three ...
Frederik Pohl (born November 26, 1919, New York City, New York, U.S.—died September 2, 2013, Arlington Heights, Illinois) was an American science-fiction writer whose best work uses the genre as a mode of social criticism and as an exploration of the long-range consequences of technology in an ailing society.. Pohl was a high-school dropout, but, by the time he was 20 years old, he was ...
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Sep 4, 2013 · Mr. Pohl was born in New York City on Nov. 26, 1919, and spent most of his childhood in Brooklyn. An early reader, he developed a taste for the science fiction magazines of the day, known as pulps ...
Sep 2, 2013 · Frederik George Pohl, Jr. was an American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning over seventy years. From about 1959 until 1969, Pohl edited Galaxy magazine and its sister magazine IF winning the Hugo for IF three years in a row. His writing also won him three Hugos and multiple Nebula Awards.
Grand Masters Pohl (Gateway) and the late Clarke (1917–2008, best known for 2001) collaborated on a can't-put-down adventure that focuses on their mutual strengths: high adventure, fun characters and hard science.
Nov 13, 2016 · In a column marked EXCLUSIVE in Deadline Hollywood for Monday, 10 March 2014, Nellie Andreeva broke the story that the rights to Frederik Pohl's Gateway. had been obtained by Entertainment One Television, in conjunction with the De Laurentiis Company. "The project will be executive produced by De Laurentiis Co.’s Martha De Laurentiis and Lorenzo De Maio along with eOne’s John Morayniss ...
Jul 15, 1997 · Frederik Pohl (1919- ) 1,758 words posted: july 15, 1997 : In his classic study, New Maps of Hell (1960), Kingsley Amis described Frederik Pohl as "the most consistently able writer science fiction, in the modern sense, has yet produced." Pohl's contributions as fan, editor, and writer span the history of modern American science fiction.
Sep 4, 2013 · US science fiction writer Frederik Pohl - best known for his classic 1977 award-winning novel, Gateway - has died in Chicago at the age of 93. Pohl wrote hundreds of stories, using his own name ...
Sep 4, 2013 · CHICAGO (AP) — Author Frederik Pohl, who over decades gained a reputation of being a literate and sophisticated writer of science fiction, has died at age 93. His wife, Elizabeth Hull, said Tuesday that Pohl died Monday at a hospital after experiencing respiratory problems at his home in the Chicago suburb of Palatine.
