Posted on 09/02/2013 3:56:30 PM PDT by EveningStar
One of the leading lights of the science fiction world, editor and author Frederik Pohl, passed away this weekend after a career that defined the genre for decades...
Pohl was known for his mind-bending, often satirical novels (many co-authored with longtime collaborator C.M. Kornbluth), his editing acumen, his science fiction criticism, and his witty, fascinating blog, which he was updating right up until his death...
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I didn’t realize that he was still alive. I read just about all his work as it came out, and have the first editions on my bookshelves.
I especially liked his collaborations with Jack Williamson and Cyril Kornbluth.
I haven't read much of his work, but I did read his entire "Heechee" series and enjoyed it.
Dang. The world just became a sadder, duller and dumber place.
Oh man this sucks. He is my favorite scifi author...
“The Space Merchants” was one of the first science fiction books I read.
Freeper books?! :p)
Good thing that the genre has been redefined as a place to find harlequin romances in space featuring love triangles with the dead and animals and our intrepid heroine. Or, dang, lesbian love triangles in space - now that’s sci fi!
He was one cool guy. "IF" you wrote him a well crafted and neatly typed (or written) letter he would answer in kind. Especially if the subject of your letter was a query about some of the science he wrote about. When I was a teenager I wrote him a letter that my science teacher prompted me to write and got an answer. (My teacher made me re-write it several times until he was sure it was free of mistakes)
Sadly I left it at my Mom's house and it got ruined when her basement flooded.
*Not a Frederik Pohl tale!
Knew he was frail as I haven’t seen him at the Chicago conventions in the last couple of years.
I like to think of him in Fiddlers Green with Heinlein, Asimov, Tucker, Ackermann and others I loved as writers that have passed on. I am sure he is having wonderful adventure now.
Niven does/did the same. I did send an SASE.
/johnny
When do you know you are old? When the obituaries start being of interest.
RIP old friend, I’ll be seeing you along with all of those others who have made my life what it is. Godspeed to your eternal rest.
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>>Dang. The world just became a sadder, duller and dumber place.<<
One of the last of the Giants of SF. Maybe THE last?
Just damn!
I don’t know if Pohl studied under Campbell but he was of that generation: the ones who defined SF.
Folksinger Pete Singer and beatnik poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti were also born in 1919. And Olivia de Haviland, 1916 and her sister Joan Fontaine, 1917 — these folks are still around, which is pretty amazing.
HEY! Who just bought all four of my novels?! Thanks!
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