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The crew of the Constitution--scientists cum astronauts--had been carefully screened for extremely high intelligence and superb physical qualities. They were to be the first explorers sent to another stellar system....
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Search the Sky is a satirical science fiction novel written by Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth and first published in 1954 by Ballantine Books. What is the fate of the colonists who went out from Earth to settle the far planets beyond our...
A collection of short stories by the award-winning American science fiction writer, Frederik Pohl. They range from the lighthearted "The High Test" to the longest of the collection, "The Sweet, Sad Queen of the Grazing Star", a sinister story...
In a future where medical science has all but eliminated death, vid star Rafiel is faced with his own demise and learns many poignant lessons about life as he struggles with this reality. By the author of *Our Angry Earth. *
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The events chronicled in the award-winning Man Plus were only the beginning. It is 50 years later. Man is on Mars to stay. But things have become strange, even compared to the population of cyborgs and human misfits who now occupy the Red Planet....
Contents:
"Introduction: Science-Fiction Games," 1974
"In the Problem Pit," 1973
"Let the Ants Try," 1949
"To See Another Mountain," 1959
"The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass," 1962 (aka The Time Machine of Phineas...
Caution! You are about to enter a world...
...where all engineering ingenuity has been employed for public spectacles of torture and death.
...where the stock market operated with pari-mutuel machines.
...where a court clerk transcribes...
He was a master teacher-respected, successful, his life well rewarded in past accomplishments and rich in the promise of achievements to come.
And yet he was fighting a bitter battle with a savage, bewildering driveto self-destruction.
But...
Original collection of stories. Includes foreword and afterward by Pohl, and these stories: The Quaker Cannon (1961); Mute Inglorious Tam (1974); The World of Myrion Flowers (1961); The Gift of Garigolli (1974); A Gentle Dying (1961); A Hint of...
When a mysterious alien spacecraft approaches the Earth and demands to speak with the President of the United States, then destroys a large Pacific island to demonstrate its strength and seriousness, you'd expect the President to talk. Problem is,...