Frederik Pohl, Jr. was born in Brooklyn, New York. His father held a number of jobs, and his family moved many times in his childhood before settling in Brooklyn when he was about seven. He attended Brooklyn Tech high school, but dropped out and took a job to help support his family. As a teen, he founded the New York science fiction writer's group The Futurians. His first publication, a poem, appeared in Amazing Stories in 1937, when he was 18 years old. In 1936, he joined the Young Communist League and became President of the Brooklyn branch, but he left it in 1939 after Stalin-Hitler pact. In 1939, at the age of 21, he was editor of both Super Science Stories and Astonishing Stories, and regularly published his own stories in both of them. He married his first wife in 1940. In 1943 both the magazines he was editing folded, and he worked as a literary agent. During World War II, he served with the Army Air Corps from 1945-1945. He divorced his first wife during this period and married his second wife in 1945. In 1948 he married his third wife, Judith Merril, who he divorced in 1953, the same year he married his fourth wife, Carol Metcal Ulf.
In the early 1950s his literary agency business failed and he returned to editing as an assistant editor at Galaxy Science Fiction and later also if Magazine. In 1966, 1967, and 1968 his magazines won Hugo Awards for Best Professional Magazines. In the 1970s he acquired and edited novels for the "Frederik Pohl Selections" series of Bantam Books. He also began to emerge as a novel writer, and went on to win Nebula awards for fiction in 1976 and 1977 and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1978. He married his current wife, science fiction editor and academic Elizabeth Anne Hull, PhD, in 1984. He continues to write from his home in Palatine, Illinois.
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The space merchants
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Gateway
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Gladiator-at-law
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The age of the pussyfoot
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Man plus
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Jem
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Heechee rendezvous: a novel
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Beyond the blue event horizon
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Undersea Quest
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Drunkard's walk
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Slave ship
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Pohlstars
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Starchild
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Reefs of Space
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The Coming of the Quantum Cats
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The cool war
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A plague of pythons
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Black star rising
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Gold at the Starbows End
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Rogue Star
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Undersea Fleet
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Chernobyl: a novel
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O pioneer!
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Starburst
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The Starchild Trilogy
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The way the future was: a memoir
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The best of Frederik Pohl
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The annals of the Heechee
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Day million
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Undersea City
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The day the Martians came
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The Gateway Trip: Tales & Vignettes
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Homegoing
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Midas world: a novel
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The world at the end of time
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'Galaxy' reader
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Demon in the skull
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Early Pohl
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The Frederik Pohl omnibus
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The merchants' war
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The Last Theorem
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The voices of heaven
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Bipohl: two complete novels
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Stopping at Slowyear
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The SFWA Grand Masters, Volume 2: Isaac Asimov, Alfred Bester, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, and Andre Norton
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Worlds of If: A Retrospective Anthology
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The New Visions: A Collection of Modern Science Fiction Art
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The SFWA Grand Masters: Volume 3
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Digits and dastards
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Science fiction, studies in film
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The SFWA Grand Masters, Volume 1: Robert A. Heinlein, Jack Williamson, Clifford D. Simak, L. Sprague de Camp, and Fritz Leiber
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Preferred Risk
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Man Who Ate the World
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The abominable earthman
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The Wonder Effect
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A town is drowning
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STAR FOURTEEN
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The Last Theorem
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The boy who would live forever: A Novel of Gateway (Gateway Novels)
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Chasing science: science as spectator sport
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Outnumbering the dead
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Mars plus
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Farthest star: the saga of Cuckoo
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Wall Around a Star: the saga of Cuckoo
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MORE PENGUIN SCIENCE FICTION
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Planets Three
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Turn Left at Thursday
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Jem the Making of a Utopia
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Nebula Winners: 14 (Nebula Awards Showcase)
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Assignment in tomorrow: an anthology
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Undersea City
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Mining the oort
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The Singers of Time
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Science fiction: studies in film
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HEECHEE RENDEZVOUS (HEECHEE SAGA, NO 3)
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Terror
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The Frederick Pohl omibus
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Jem
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The Undersea Trilogy
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Man Plus
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The Years of the City
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This Is My Best
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Homo plus
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Annals of the Heechee (Heechee Saga, Book 4)
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Rendez-vous à la Grande Porte
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Beyond the end of time
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Tras El Incierto Horizonte - Saga Heechee/2
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Narabedla
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La Guerra de Los Mercaderes
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Les annales des Heechees
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Galaxy Magazine, August 1974 (Volume 35, No. 4)
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Galaxy Vol. 2
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The Other End of Time (Eschaton)
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Age Of/pussy Foot
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L'avènement des chats quantiques
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The Second IF Reader of Science Fiction
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Plus de vifs que de morts
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Çikis kapisi
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Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (Heechee Saga, Book 2)
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IF Worlds of Science Fiction, October 1966 (Volume 16, No. 10)
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- Elton Andrews
- Frederik Pohl And G M Kornbluth
- FREDERIK POHL
- Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson
- Frederik Pohl; Jack Williamson
- Frederick Pohl
- Fredrik Pohl
- Frederic Pohl
- FREDERICK POHL
- Frederick. Pohl
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