Frederik Pohl

Overview:

  • Legal Name: Pohl, Frederik
  • Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
  • Date of Birth: November 26, 1919
  • Date of Death: September 2, 2013

Notes:

Born in 1919 in New York, Pohl has been everything one can be in science fiction, including author, editor and agent. One of the original FUTURIANS, he has written many stories and novels on his own and in various collaborations, and under several names. He has also been a prolific anthologist. Among his many awards are the Hugo and Nebula, including the Grand Master. His contributions to SF are unexceeded. Editorial positions: Astonishing Stories: Editor 2/40 to 9/41, Assistant editor 11/41 to 4/43. Galaxy: Managing Editor 6/61 to 6/62, Editor 8/62 to 5/69, Editor Emeritus 7/69 to 6/70. Popular Science: Book Editor 1946 to 1949. Star Science Fiction: Editor 1/1958. Super Science Stories: Editor 3/1940 to 8/1941, Assistant Editor 11/1941 to 5/1943. Worlds of Fantasy #1: Editor 1968. Worlds of IF: Features Editor 7/1959 to 1/1961, Managing Editor 5/1961 to 7/1962, Editor 9/62 to 5/69, Editor Emeritus 7/1969 to 7/1970. Worlds of Tommorrow: Editor 4/1963 to 5/1967. Ace Books: Executive Editor 12/1971 to 7/1972. Bantam Books: Science Fiction Editor 2/1973 to 3/1978.

Titles:

Anthologies

Chapter Books

Collections

Essays

Interviews

Magazine Editor

Non-fiction

Novels

Omnibuses

Poems

Reviews

Serials

Short Fiction

Awards

  • 0000. The Years of the City - John W. Campbell Memorial Award, Best Science Fiction Novel (Win)
  • 0000. Man Plus - Nebula Award, Novel (Win)
  • 0000. Gateway - John W. Campbell Memorial Award, Best Science Fiction Novel (Win)
  • 0000. Gateway - Hugo Award, Best Novel (Win)
  • 0000. Gateway - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Win)
  • 0000. Gateway - Nebula Award, Novel (Win)
  • 0000. la Grande porte^Gateway - Prix Tour-Apollo Award, Prix Apollo (Win)
  • 0000. The Way the Future Was - Locus Poll Award, Best Reference Book (Win)
  • 0000. Fermi and Frost - Hugo Award, Best Short Story (Win)
  • 0000. The Gold at the Starbow's End - Locus Poll Award, Best Novella (Win)
  • 0000. The Meeting - Hugo Award, Best Short Story (Win)
  • 0000. If - Hugo Award, Best Professional Magazine (Win)
  • 0000. If - Hugo Award, Best Professional Magazine (Win)
  • 0000. If - Hugo Award, Best Professional Magazine (Win)
  • 0000. The Day the Martians Came - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. In the Problem Pit - Locus Poll Award, Best Novella (Nomination)
  • 0000. Gateway - Locus Poll Award, All-Time Best SF Novel before 1990 (Nomination)
  • 0000. Outnumbering the Dead - Locus Poll Award, Best Novella (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Greening of Bed-Stuy - Locus Poll Award, Best Novella (Nomination)
  • 0000. We Purchased People - Locus Poll Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. Science Fiction: The Great Years - Locus Poll Award, Best Reprint Anthology/Collection (old) (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Things That Happen - Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Nomination)
  • 0000. Waiting for the Olympians - Locus Poll Award, Best Novella (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Best of Frederik Pohl - Locus Poll Award, Best Single Author Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Gift of Garigolli - Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Nomination)
  • 0000. Homegoing - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Yesterday's Tomorrows - Locus Poll Award, Best Anthology (Nomination)
  • 0000. Farmer on the Dole - Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Far Shore of Time - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Day Million - Locus Online, 20th Century Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. Hatching the Phoenix - Locus Poll Award, Best Novella (Nomination)
  • 0000. The World at the End of Time - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Voices of Heaven - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Mining the Oort - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Enjoy, Enjoy - Locus Poll Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. Mute Inglorious Tam - Locus Poll Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. All the Lives He Led - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Man Plus - John W. Campbell Memorial Award, Best Science Fiction Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. JEM - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Beyond the Blue Event Horizon - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Stopping at Slowyear - Hugo Award, Best Novella (Nomination)
  • 0000. Stopping at Slowyear - Locus Poll Award, Best Novella (Nomination)
  • 0000. Stopping at Slowyear - SF Chronicle Award, Novella (Nomination)
  • 0000. Pohlstars - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. Fermi and Frost - Locus Poll Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. Servant of the People - Hugo Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Mother Trip - Locus Poll Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Gold at the Starbow's End - Hugo Award, Best Novella (Nomination)
  • 0000. Galaxy - Hugo Award, Best Professional Magazine (Nomination)
  • 0000. If - Hugo Award, Best Professional Magazine (Nomination)
  • 0000. Gateway - Locus Online, 20th Century Science Fiction Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Wall Around a Star - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Nebula Winners 14 - Locus Poll Award, Best Anthology (Nomination)
  • 0000. Adeste Fideles - Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Other End of Time - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Space Merchants^Gravy Planet - Locus Poll Award, All-Time Best Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. My Life as a Born Again Pig - Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Nomination)
  • 0000. Man Plus - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. JEM - Hugo Award, Best Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Heechee Rendezvous - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Outnumbering the Dead - Asimov's Readers' Poll, Best Novella (Nomination)
  • 0000. Fermi and Frost - SF Chronicle Award, Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. Spending a Day at the Lottery Fair - Locus Poll Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. Galaxy - Hugo Award, Best Professional Magazine (Nomination)
  • 0000. Beyond the Blue Event Horizon - Hugo Award, Best Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Platinum Pohl: The Collected Best Stories - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. Shaffery Among the Immortals - Nebula Award, Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. Mars Masked - Locus Poll Award, Best Novella (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Blister - Locus Poll Award, Best Novella (Nomination)
  • 0000. Servant of the People - Locus Poll Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. Swanilda's Song - Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Gold at the Starbow's End - Nebula Award, Novella (Nomination)
  • 0000. Galaxy - Hugo Award, Best Professional Magazine (Nomination)
  • 0000. El último teorema - Premio Ignotus, Mejor novela extranjera - Best Foreign Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Jupiter - Locus Poll Award, Best Reprint Anthology/Collection (old) (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Years of the City - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Annals of the Heechee - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Gold at the Starbow's End - Locus Poll Award, Best Reprint Anthology/Collection (old) (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Kindly Isle - Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Cool War - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Best Science Fiction for 1972 - Locus Poll Award, Best Reprint Anthology/Collection (old) (Nomination)
  • 0000. The SFWA Grand Masters: Volume 2 - Locus Poll Award, Best Anthology (Nomination)
  • 0000. Waiting for the Olympians - Asimov's Readers' Poll, Best Novella (Nomination)
  • 0000. Criticality - Locus Poll Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Merchants of Venus - Locus Poll Award, Best Novella (Nomination)
  • 0000. Starburst - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Gateway - Locus Poll Award, All-Time Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Gateway Trip - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. The SFWA Grand Masters, Volume 3 - Locus Poll Award, Best Anthology (Nomination)
  • 0000. Midas World - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. Galaxy: Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction - Locus Poll Award, Best Anthology (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Lord of the Skies - Locus Poll Award, Best Novella (Nomination)
  • 0000. Mining the Oort - HOMer Award, Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. JEM - Nebula Award, Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Gateway - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best International Long Fiction (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Coming of the Quantum Cats - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Beyond the Blue Event Horizon - British Science Fiction Award, Best Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Beyond the Blue Event Horizon - Nebula Award, Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Stopping at Slowyear - HOMer Award, Novella (Nomination)
  • 0000. The SFWA Grand Masters: Volume 1 - Locus Poll Award, Best Anthology (Nomination)
  • 0000. Science Fiction Discoveries - Locus Poll Award, Best Anthology (Nomination)
  • 0000. Growing Up in Edge City - Nebula Award, Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. Mars Masked - Nebula Award, Novella (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Greening of Bed-Stuy - Nebula Award, Novella (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Meeting - Locus Poll Award, Best Short Fiction (Nomination)
  • 0000. Under Two Moons - Nebula Award, Novella (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Sweet Sad Queen of the Grazing Isles - Locus Poll Award, Best Novella (Nomination)
  • 0000. Man Plus - Hugo Award, Best Novel (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. Galaxy - Hugo Award, Best Professional Magazine (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. Galaxy - Hugo Award, Best Professional Magazine (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. Galaxy - Hugo Award, Best Professional Magazine (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. Galaxy - Hugo Award, Best Professional Magazine (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. If - Hugo Award, Best Professional Magazine (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. The Boy Who Would Live Forever - John W. Campbell Memorial Award, Best Science Fiction Novel (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. The Age of the Pussyfoot - Nebula Award, Novel (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. The Quaker Cannon - Hugo Award, Best Short Fiction (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. The Voices of Heaven - Hugo Award, Best Novel (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. The Reefs of Space - Hugo Award, Best Novel (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. Worlds of Tomorrow - 1963 - Hugo Award, Best Professional Magazine (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. If - 1963 - Hugo Award, Best Professional Magazine (Nomination below cutoff)

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