Frederik: 240 books

An American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning more than seventy-five years. The Science Fiction Writers of America named Pohl its 12th recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award in 1993. Pohl won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 2010... Contents Survival...

Collected here are five adventures from Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master and Science Fiction Hall of Fame member, Frederik Pohl. Each of these stories will transport you to an imaginative place and time. Pohl was one of the best science fiction writers of all time and these are some of his best stories.

Scullery is a mystery tale written as a tribute to The Gold-Bug by Edgar Allen Poe. An urban fantasy about a Mr. Simone, who searches the farm of Ellis Forrester, who stands accused of corruption, extortion and kidnapping of three local mobsters. According to the mayor, they came for his mysterious...

“A lucid overview of [environmental] problems and a compelling call to action.” —Publishers Weekly From two of science fiction’s most celebrated and brilliant minds—Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl—comes the second edition of Our Angry Earth, a comprehensive analysis of today's environmental...

It wasn't fair - a smart but luckless man like Mooney had to scrounge, while Harse always made out just because he had a...Survival Kit! Frederik Pohl truly astonishes with another masterpiece of science fiction, Survival Kit!

Here he is - The Main Character. And a woman. And a red Ford Mustang, a park and a bench. Something happens and not everybody seems to get out alive.The Main Character is maybe a crime novel, but a short and poetic one. And without a plot. On the other hand, it is illustrated by renowned artist...

17 juin 2002. Sur un terrain lisse comme un billard, quelque part à l’autre bout de monde, Jacky Peeters envoie un centre parfait sur le front de Marc Wilmots. 1-0. Nous sommes au Mondial de football et l’adversaire est l’imbattable formation brésilienne. L’histoire s’écrit... furtivement...

Met Het sadistische universum bevestigde Willem Frederik Hermans zijn reputatie als scheldredenaar nummer één. Briljante essays over Hermans' stokpaardjes Multatuli, Weinreb en Wittgenstein, maar ook verrassende en gemene stukken over pin-up-girls, experimentele romans, de katten van Rome, antipathieke...

'Ik heb deze bundel Paranoia genoemd, zonder te bedoelen dat de personages die erin optreden, aan deze geestesziekte lijden. Ik ben geen psychiater, ik stel geen diagnose.' Aldus Willem Frederik Hermans over zijn eerste bundel met onvergetelijke verhalen: 'Preambule', 'Manuscript in een kliniek gevonden',...

Toen Willem Frederik Hermans zijn vaderland achterliet had hij een affaire achter de rug met afgunstige docenten en hoogleraren op de Universiteit van Groningen. Hoewel hij achteraf juridisch geheel in het gelijk werd gesteld zal geen wraak zoeter hebben gesmaakt dat het publiceren van de bijtende...

How Japan, after 250 years of self--imposed isolation, began the process of modernization is in part the story of Ranald MacDonald. In 1848 this half-Scot, half-Chinook adventurer from the Pacific Northwest landed on an island off Hokkaido. Although promptly arrested and imprisoned for seven months in...

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Tunnel Under the World. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Frederik Pohl, which is now, at last, again available to you. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs...

`In puinhopen voel ik mij prettig, ergens ander hoor ik niet thuis, zegt Arthur Muttah, de hoofdpersoon in De tranen der acacia s. Toen het boek in 1949 verscheen, herkende een hele generatie zich in dit pessimistische levensgevoel. De eerste grote roman van Willem Frederik Hermans, die opschudding...

Zwölf Meister ihres Fachs - zwölf Sternstunden der Geschichte Ein außergewöhnliches Projekt: Zwölf renommierte Autoren berichten von schicksalhaften Augenblicken, die die Welt aus den Angeln gehoben haben. Mitreißende Geschichten über folgenschwere Momente, die das Ende oder den Beginn einer Epoche...