List of works by Frederik Pohl

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This is an incomplete list of works by American space opera and science fiction author Frederik Pohl, including co-authored works. [1]

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Works

The first installment of Gravy Planet (The Space Merchants), by Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth, was cover-featured on the June 1952 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction Galaxy 195206.jpg
The first installment of Gravy Planet ( The Space Merchants ), by Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth, was cover-featured on the June 1952 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction
Another Pohl-Kornbluth collaboration, Gladiator-at-Law, took the cover of the June 1954 Galaxy Science Fiction in 1954, illustrated by Ed Emshwiller Galaxy 195406.jpg
Another Pohl-Kornbluth collaboration, Gladiator-at-Law, took the cover of the June 1954 Galaxy Science Fiction in 1954, illustrated by Ed Emshwiller
Pohl and Lester del Rey collaborated to write Preferred Risk on short notice when no suitable winner was submitted to a novel-writing contest for Galaxy in 1955 Galaxy 195506.jpg
Pohl and Lester del Rey collaborated to write Preferred Risk on short notice when no suitable winner was submitted to a novel-writing contest for Galaxy in 1955
Pohl's first solo novel, Slave Ship, was serialized in Galaxy in 1956 Galaxy 195603.jpg
Pohl's first solo novel, Slave Ship, was serialized in Galaxy in 1956
The last Pohl-Kornbluth sf novel, Wolfbane, was serialized in Galaxy Science Fiction in 1957, with a cover illustration by Wally Wood Galaxy 195710.jpg
The last Pohl-Kornbluth sf novel, Wolfbane, was serialized in Galaxy Science Fiction in 1957, with a cover illustration by Wally Wood
Pohl's novella Whatever Counts was the cover story on the June 1959 Galaxy Science Fiction Galaxy 195906.jpg
Pohl's novella Whatever Counts was the cover story on the June 1959 Galaxy Science Fiction
Pohl's second solo novel, Drunkard's Walk, was serialized in Galaxy in 1960 Galaxy 196006.jpg
Pohl's second solo novel, Drunkard's Walk, was serialized in Galaxy in 1960
Pohl's "The Martian Star-Gazers" (under his "Ernest Mason" pseudonym) was the cover story on the February 1962 Galaxy Science Fiction, while the Pohl-Kornbluth story "Critical Mass" was also cover-featured Galaxy 196202.jpg
Pohl's "The Martian Star-Gazers" (under his "Ernest Mason" pseudonym) was the cover story on the February 1962 Galaxy Science Fiction , while the Pohl-Kornbluth story "Critical Mass" was also cover-featured
Pohl's novelette "The Five Hells of Orion" was the cover story on the January 1963 issue of If If 196301.jpg
Pohl's novelette "The Five Hells of Orion" was the cover story on the January 1963 issue of If
The Reefs of Space, which Pohl cowrote with Jack Williamson, was serialized in If in 1963 If 196307.jpg
The Reefs of Space, which Pohl cowrote with Jack Williamson, was serialized in If in 1963

Series

Heechee

  1. Gateway (1977)—winner of the Campbell Memorial, Hugo, Locus SF, and Nebula Awards as the year's Best Novel [2] [3] [4]
  2. Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (1980)—second place, Locus SF Award, and finalist for the British SF, Hugo, and Nebula Awards [2]
  3. Heechee Rendezvous (1984)—third place, Locus SF Award [2] [5]
  4. The Annals of the Heechee (1987)
  5. The Gateway Trip: Tales and Vignettes of the Heechee, (1990) (collection of short stories involving the Heechee, including the 1972 story "The Merchants of Venus", the first mention of the Heechee)
  6. The Boy Who Would Live Forever: A Novel of Gateway (2004), nominated for the Campbell Memorial Award [2] [6]

Eschaton trilogy

  1. The Other End of Time (1996)
  2. The Siege of Eternity (1997)
  3. The Far Shore of Time (1999)

Mars

  1. Man Plus (1976)—winner of the Nebula Award; Campbell Memorial runner up, Locus SF third place, and Hugo finalist [2] [3] [7]
  2. Mars Plus (1994) also listed under collaborations

Space Merchants

The first book, The Space Merchants, listed under collaborations

  1. The Merchants' War (1984) [8]
  2. The two novels were published together as: Venus, Inc. (1985) (SFBC omnibus)

Other novels (not parts of series)

Collaborations

with Isaac Asimov

with Cyril M. Kornbluth

  • The Space Merchants (1953) (a sole-author sequel, The Merchant's War, appeared in 1984)
  • Search the Sky (1954) (heavily revised 1985)
  • Gladiator-At-Law (1955) (revised 1986)
  • Presidential Year [12] (1956)
  • A Town Is Drowning (1955)
  • Sorority House (1956) as by 'Jordan Park', a lesbian pulp novel
  • Wolfbane (1959)

-see also the short-story collections The Wonder Effect, Critical Mass, Before the Universe, and the selected stories Our Best: The Best of Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth (listed under collections)

with Jack Williamson

  1. Undersea Quest (1954)
  2. Undersea Fleet (1956)
  3. Undersea City (1958)
  1. The Reefs of Space (1964)
  2. Starchild (1965)
  3. Rogue Star (1969)
  1. Farthest Star (1975)
  2. Wall Around a Star (1983)
  • Land's End (1988)
  • The Singers of Time (1991)

with Lester Del Rey

  • Preferred Risk (1955) under the joint pseudonym Edson McCann

with Thomas T. Thomas

  • Mars Plus (1994) sequel to Man Plus

with Arthur C. Clarke

Collections

Nonfiction

As editor of a compilation of SF short stories

  • The Expert Dreamers (1962) (Introduction by Pohl; short stories by Morrison, Frisch, Gamow, Asimov, Walter, Willey, Latham, Davis, Hoyle, Ellanby, Norbert, Gregor, Correy, Smith, Szilard)

Autobiography

  • The Way the Future Was (1978)

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