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Author : Frederik Pohl
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765301451
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Platinum Pohl written by Frederik Pohl and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-01-23 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new compilation of short fiction includes a never-before-published Heechee story and other science fiction tales.
Author : Frederik Pohl
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466826444
Total Pages : 881 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Platinum Pohl written by Frederik Pohl and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-01-23 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederik Pohl, the bestselling author of The Boy Who Would Live Forever, is famous for his novels, but first and foremost, he is a master of the science fiction short story. For more than fifty years he has been writing incisive, entertaining SF stories, several hundred in all. Even while writing his bestselling triple-crown (Hugo, Nebula, Campbell Award) novel Gateway and the other Heechee Saga novels, he has always written short fiction. Now, for the first time, he has gathered together the best of his many stories in Platinum Pohl. Spanning the decades, these tales are in their way a living history of science fiction. Because Frederik Pohl has been on the frontlines of the field since the halcyon days of the late 1930s, and has written short stories in every decade since. And because he has always been a keen observer of the human condition and the world that is shaped by it, his stories reflect the currents of political movements, social trends, major events that have shaken the world . . . Yet at their core, all his stories are most acutely concerned with people. All sorts of people. Some are people you'll love, some you'll hate. But you will need to find out what happens to the people who inhabit these stories. Because Frederik Pohl imbues his characters with a depth and individuality that makes them as real as people you see every day. Of course, he also employs a mind-boggling variety of scientific ideas and science fictional tropes with which his characters must interact. And he does it all with seemingly no effort at all. That's some trick. Not everyone can do that . . . but that's why he was named a Grand Master of Science Fiction by his peers in the Science Fiction Writers of America. Here are his two Hugo Award winning stories, "Fermi and Frost" and "The Meeting" (with C. M. Kornbluth), along with such classic novellas as the powerful "The Gold at the Starbow's End" and "The Greening of Bed-Stuy," and stories such as "Servant of the People," "Shaffery Among the Immortals," and "Growing Up in Edge City," all finalists for major awards. And dozens of other wonderful tales, like "The Mayor of Mare Tranq" and the provocative "The Day the Martians Landed" and many others. Altogether, a grand collection of thought-provoking, entertaining science fiction by one of the all-time greats! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Michael R Page
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252097742
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Frederik Pohl written by Michael R Page and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."
Author : Frederik Pohl
Publisher : Orb Books
ISBN 13 : 1466806354
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Blue Event Horizon written by Frederik Pohl and published by Orb Books. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : M. Keith Booker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9781444310351
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Science Fiction Handbook written by M. Keith Booker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-03-30 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Science Fiction Handbook offers a comprehensive and accessible survey of one of the literary world's most fascinating genres. Includes separate historical surveys of key subgenres including time-travel narratives, post-apocalyptic and post-disaster narratives and works of utopian and dystopian science fiction Each subgenre survey includes an extensive list of relevant critical readings, recommended novels in the subgenre, and recommended films relevant to the subgenre Features entries on a number of key science fiction authors and extensive discussion of major science fiction novels or sequences Writers and works include Isaac Asimov; Margaret Atwood; George Orwell; Ursula K. Le Guin; The War of the Worlds (1898); Starship Troopers (1959); Mars Trilogy (1993-6); and many more A 'Science Fiction Glossary' completes this indispensable Handbook
Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312363413
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (634 download)
Download or read book The Best of the Best, Volume 2 written by Gardner Dozois and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-02-06 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features a selection of science fiction writings from the past two decades of the annual "The Year's Best Science Fiction," including works from authors such as Frederik Pohl, Robert Silverberg, and Ursula K. Le Guin.
Author : Frederik Pohl
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0765375966
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)
Download or read book Chernobyl written by Frederik Pohl and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an extraordinary novel, Pohl has cast the events surrounding the explosion at Chernobyl into a monumental work of speculative fiction. Based on careful research, Chernobyl takes readers into the lives, homes and heartbeats of the people who were there.
Author : Frederik Pohl
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0765321785
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)
Download or read book Man Plus written by Frederik Pohl and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the Earth out of water and land and under the threat of nuclear war, the United States looks to Mars for precious resources and prepares a man, mentally and physically, to survive the hostile Martian environment.
Author : Frederik Pohl
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780765361455
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (614 download)
Download or read book All the Lives He Led written by Frederik Pohl and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A near-future tale finds a popular theme park opened on the site of ancient Pompeii on the eve of the 2,000th anniversary of the eruption of Vesuvius and threatened by a possible repeat eruption and terrorist attack.
Author : Stephen R. Wilk
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199948011
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book How the Ray Gun Got Its Zap written by Stephen R. Wilk and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of engaging essays that discusses odd and unusual topics in optics
Author : Maura Heaphy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1598845063
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Science Fiction Authors written by Maura Heaphy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-11-30 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For students, scholars, readers' advisors, and curious SF readers and fans, this guide provides an easy-to-use launch pad for researching and learning more about science fiction writers and their work. Emphasizing the best popular and contemporary authors, this book covers 100 SF writers, providing for each: • a brief biographical sketch, including a quote from theauthor, awards, etc. • a list of the author's major works (including editions and other writings) • research sources-biographies, criticism, research guides, and web sites • In addition, you'll find read-alike lists for selected authors. For anyone wanting to find information on popular SF authors, this should be the first stop.
Author : Frederik Pohl
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1466826428
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book The Boy Who Would Live Forever written by Frederik Pohl and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1977 Frederik Pohl stunned the science fiction world with the publication of Gateway, one of the most brilliantly entertaining SF novels of all time. More than twenty-five years later, Pohl completed a new novel set in the Gateway universe: The Boy Who Would Live Forever. The Boy Who Would Live Forever has a sense of wonder and excitement that will satisfy those who loved Gateway and will delight new readers as well. In Gateway, long after the alien Heechee abandoned their space-station, Gateway (as humans dubbed it) allowed humans to explore new worlds. The Heechee, alarmed by the alien Kugel whose goal was to destroy all organic lifeforms, had already retreated to the galactic core where they now lived in peace. Now, in The Boy Who Would Live Forever, humans with dreams of life among the stars are joining the Heechee at the core, to live there along with those humans and Heechee whose physical bodies have died and their minds stored in electronic memory so that their wisdom passes down through the ages. Their peace is threatened by the Kugel, who may yet attack the core. But a much greater threat is the human Wan Enrique Santos-Smith, whose blind loathing of the Heechee fuels an insane desire to destroy them and, incidentally, every living being in the galaxy. Stan and Estrella, two young people from Earth, went to Gateway looking for adventure, and found each other. They settle among the Heechee on Forested Planet of Warm Old Star Twenty-Four, never suspecting that they may be the last best hope to save the galaxy. But with allies like Gelle-Klara Moynlin--one of the galaxy's richest women, who isn't content to just have money, but wants to use her wealth for good, and machine mind Marc Antony-a wonderful chef to thousands of living and stored clients, they are destined to contend with Wan's terrible plan. Frederik Pohl has woven together the lives of these and other memorable characters to create a masterful new novel. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : St Martins Press
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312874711
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Who's Who, 1982-1983 written by St Martins Press and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1982-04-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over forty years Frederik Pohl has been a famous science fiction writer, and much of his fame is due to his wonderful short stories. In all the tales in this wonderful collection of memorable stories, Pohl draws you into a delightful multitude of worlds and times, some familiar, some utterly alien, but all compulsively inviting. Which is why this is Platinum Pohlonly the highest standard applies! A special treat exclusive to Platinum Pohl is a never-before-published Heechee story!
Author : Bryan L. Moore
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319607383
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)
Download or read book Ecological Literature and the Critique of Anthropocentrism written by Bryan L. Moore and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-14 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an analysis of literary texts that question, critique, or subvert anthropocentrism, the notion that the universe and everything in it exists for humans. Bryan Moore examines ancient Greek and Roman texts; medieval to twentieth-century European texts; eighteenth-century French philosophy; early to contemporary American texts and poetry; and science fiction to demonstrate a historical basis for the questioning of anthropocentrism and contemplation of responsible environmental stewardship in the twenty-first century and beyond. Ecological Literature and the Critique of Anthropocentrism is essential reading for ecocritics and ecofeminists. It will also be useful for researchers interested in the relationship between science and literature, environmental philosophy, and literature in general.
Author : Dinah Birch
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0192806874
Total Pages : 1184 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Companion to English Literature written by Dinah Birch and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009-09-24 with total page 1184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a team of more than 150 contributors working under the direction of Dinah Birch, and ranging in influence from Homer to the Mahabharata, this guide provides the reader with a comprehensive coverage of all aspects of English literature.
Author : Walter L. Pohl
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 144439486X
Total Pages : 725 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book Economic Geology written by Walter L. Pohl and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanity’s ever-increasing hunger for mineral raw materials, caused by a growing global population and ever increasing standards of living, has resulted in economic geology becoming a subject of urgent importance. This book provides a broad panorama of mineral deposits, covering their origin and geological characteristics, the principles of the search for ores and minerals, and the investigation of newly found deposits. Practical and environmental issues that arise during the life cycle of a mine and after its closure are addressed, with an emphasis on sustainable and "green" mining. The central scientific theme of the book is to place the extraordinary variability of mineral deposits in the frame of fundamental geological processes. The book is written for earth science students and practicing geologists worldwide. Professionals in administration, resource development, mining, mine reclamation, metallurgy, and mineral economics will also find the text valuable. Economic Geology is a fully revised translation of the the fifth edition of the German language text Mineralische und Energie-Rohstoffe. Additional resources for this book can be found at: www.wiley.com/go/pohl/geology. The author's website can be found at: http://www.walter-pohl.com.
Author : Gardner R. Dozois
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312353340
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (123 download)
Download or read book The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection written by Gardner R. Dozois and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects short stories exploring themes of time and space travel, self-discovery, and science and technology.
