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About 141 pages (42,180 words) in 22 products |
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Frederik Pohl | | Variant Name: |
James McCreigh, Edson McCann, Donald Stacy, Ernst Mason, Cyril Judd, Jordan Park | | Birth Date: |
November 26, 1919 | | Place of Birth: |
New York, New York | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
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 Biography of Frederik Pohl
7,175 words, approx. 24 pages
 There are few science-fiction writers who have been as involved with every phase of the genre as Frederik Pohl. First as a fan and then as a writer, editor, and literary agent, Pohl has influenced and been influenced by every major current in science... summary from source:
 Biography of Frederik Pohl
2,598 words, approx. 9 pages
Frederick Pohl, an author whom Robert W. Wilcox, in the St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers, has hailed as "a star among stars," is one of the world's most prolific and widely read science fiction writers. Pohl has worn many hats during his... 
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 Frederik Pohl Information
1,555 words, approx. 5 pages
 Frederik George Pohl, Jr. (born November 26, 1919) is an influential American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning over sixty years. From about 1959 until 1969, Pohl edited Galaxy magazine and its sister magazine if, winning...
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 Extrapolation A platinum moment for Frederik Pohl: from Golden pulp to steely.(Critical essay)
03/22/2006: 1,971 words, approx. 7 pages A Futurian storyteller from that highly-political decade of the 1930s who has learned art and who has lived long enough to watch politics and affairs change and change again can represent well the particular mixed nature of science fiction--the genre of pulp involvements and... summary from source:
The Washington Post
 Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by C. N. Manlove
9,180 words, approx. 31 pages
In the following essay, Manlove discusses major themes in Pohl's short fiction, focusing in particular on the stories collected in Alternating Currents.
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Interview by Frederik Pohl with Paul Walker
5,516 words, approx. 18 pages
In the following interview, which was conducted in September-October 1970 and first published in Moebius Trip in 1971, Pohl discusses such topics as his writing and editing careers, his collaboration with Cyril M. Kornbluth, and the effects of technology on literature and society.
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Critical Essay by David N. Samuelson
4,498 words, approx. 15 pages
In the following excerpt, taken from an essay first published in S-F Studies in 1980, Samuelson explores the social criticism in Pohl's short fiction from the 1950s through the 1970s.
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