Frederik Pohl bibliography
This is an incomplete list of works by American space opera and science fiction author Frederik Pohl, including co-authored works.
Works
Series
Heechee">Heechee Saga">Heechee
- Gateway —winner of the Campbell Memorial, Hugo, Locus SF, and Nebula Awards as the year's Best Novel
- Beyond the Blue Event Horizon —second place, Locus SF Award, and finalist for the British SF, Hugo, and Nebula Awards
- Heechee Rendezvous —third place, Locus SF Award
- The Annals of the Heechee
- Gateway Trip: Tales and Vignettes of the Heechee,
- The Boy Who Would Live Forever: A Novel of Gateway, nominated for the Campbell Memorial Award
Eschaton trilogy
Mars
- Man Plus —winner of the Nebula Award; Campbell Memorial runner up, Locus SF third place, and Hugo finalist
- Mars Plus also listed under collaborations
Space Merchants
- The Space Merchants also listed under collaborations
- The Merchants' War
- The two novels were published together as: ''Venus, Inc.''
Other novels (not parts of series)
Slave Ship Edge of the City, novelization of the screenplay by Robert Alan Aurthur, Ballantine paperbackDrunkard's Walk A Plague of Pythons The Age of the Pussyfoot Jem winner of the National Book Award; finalist for the Hugo and Nebula Awards, sixth place for the Locus AwardThe Cool War Syzygy Starburst- The Years of the City —winner of the Campbell Memorial Award, sixth place Locus Collection. The Years of the City is a collection of five linked novellas, two previously published.
- * "Introduction"
- * "When New York Hit the Fan" 1984
- * "The Greening of Bed-Stuy" 1984
- * "The Blister" 1984
- * "Second-Hand Sky" 1984
- * "Gwenanda and the Supremes" 1984 Black Star Rising The Coming of the Quantum Cats Terror Chernobyl The Day The Martians Came Narabedla Ltd. Homegoing The World at the End of Time Outnumbering the Dead Stopping at Slowyear Mining the Oort The Voices of Heaven O Pioneer!
- ''All the Lives He Led''
Collaborations
with Isaac Asimov
with Cyril M. Kornbluth
The Space Merchants Search the Sky Gladiator-At-Law Presidential Year- A Town Is Drowning Sorority House as by 'Jordan Park', a lesbian pulp novelWolfbane
with [Jack Williamson]
- Farthest Star
- Wall Around a Star Land's End
- ''The Singers of Time''
with Lester Del Rey
Preferred Risk under the joint pseudonym ''Edson McCann''with Thomas T. Thomas
Mars Plus sequel to ''Man Plus''with Arthur C. Clarke
- ''The Last Theorem''
Collections
Alternating Currents- * "Happy Birthday, Dear Jesus"
- * "The Ghost Maker", 1954
- * "Let the Ants Try", 1949
- * "Pythias", 1955
- * "The Mapmakers", 1955
- * "Rafferty's Reasons", 1955
- * "Target One", 1955
- * "Grandy Devil", 1955
- * "The Tunnel under the World", 1955
- * "What to Do Until the Analyst Comes ", 1956The Case Against Tomorrow
- * "The Midas Plague", 1954
- * "The Census Takers", 1956
- * "The Candle Lighter", 1955
- * "The Celebrated No-Hit Inning", 1956
- * "Wapshot's Demon", 1956
- * "My Lady Green Sleeves" 1957Tomorrow Times Seven
- * "The Haunted Corpse", 1957
- * "The Middle of Nowhere", 1955
- * "The Gentle Venusian ", 1958
- * "The Day of the Boomer Dukes", 1956
- * "Survival Kit", 1957
- * "The Knights of Arthur", 1958
- * "To See Another Mountain", 1959The Man Who Ate the World
- * "The Man Who Ate the World", 1956
- * "The Wizards of Pung's Corners", 1959
- * "The Waging of the Peace", 1959
- * "The Snowmen", 1959
- * "The Day the Icicle Works Closed", 1959Turn Left at Thursday
- * "Mars by Moonlight", 1958
- * "The Richest Man in Levittown"
- * "The Bitterest Pill", 1959
- * "The Seven Deadly Virtues", 1958
- * "The Martian in the Attic", 1960
- * "Third Offense", 1958
- * "The Hated", 1958
- * "I Plinglot, Who You?", 1959The Wonder Effect
- * "Introduction"
- * "Critical Mass", 1962
- * "A Gentle Dying", 1961
- * "Nightmare with Zeppelins", 1958
- * "Best Friend ", 1941
- * "The World of Myrion Flowers", 1961
- * "Trouble in Time ", 1940
- * "The Engineer", 1956
- * "Mars-Tube ", 1941
- * "The Quaker Cannon", 1961The Abominable Earthman,
- * "The Abominable Earthman", 1961
- * "We Never Mention Aunt Nora", 1958
- * "A Life and a Half", 1959
- * "Punch", 1961
- * "The Martian Star-Gazers", 1962
- * "Whatever Counts", 1959
- * "Three Portraits and a Prayer", 1962Digits and Dastards
- * "", 1964
- * "The Fiend", 1964
- * "", 1964
- * "Father of the Stars", 1964
- * "The Five Hells of Orion", 1962
- * "With Redfern on Capella XII", 1965
- * "How to Count on Your Fingers", 1956
- * "On Binary Digits and Human Habits", 1962The Frederik Pohl Omnibus
- * "The Man Who Ate the World",
- * "The Seven Deadly Virtues", 1958
- * "The Day the Icicle Works Closed", 1960
- * "The Knights of Arthur", 1958
- * "Mars by Moonlight", 1958
- * " The Haunted Corpse", 1957
- * "The Middle of Nowhere", 1955
- * "The Day of the Boomer Dukes", 1956
- * "The Snowmen", 1959
- * "The Wizards of Pung's Corners ", 1958
- * "The Waging of the Peace ", 1959
- * "Survival Kit", 1957
- * "I Plinglot, Who You?", 1959Day Million
- * "Day Million", 1966
- * "The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass", 1962
- * "The Day the Martians Came", 1967
- * "The Schematic Man", 1969
- * "Small Lords", 1957
- * "Making Love", 1966
- * "Way Up Yonder", 1959
- * "Speed Trap", 1967
- * "It's a Young World", 1941
- * "Under Two Moons", 1965The Gold at the Starbow's End
- * "The Gold at the Starbow's End", 1972
- * "Sad Solarian Screenwriter Sam", 1972
- * "Call Me Million", 1970
- * "Shaffery among the Immortals", 1972
- * "The Merchants of Venus", 1972 The Best of Frederik Pohl
- * Introduction: "A Variety of Excellence", by Lester del Rey
- * "The Tunnel Under the World", 1954
- * "Punch", 1961
- * "Three Portraits and a Prayer", 1962
- * "Day Million", 1966
- * "Happy Birthday, Dear Jesus", 1956
- * "We Never Mention Aunt Nora", 1958
- * "Father of the Stars", 1964
- * "The Day the Martians Came", 1967
- * "The Midas Plague", 1954
- * "The Snowmen", 1959
- * "How to Count on Your Fingers", 1956
- * "Grandy Devil", 1955
- * "Speed Trap", 1967
- * "The Richest Man in Levittown", 1959
- * "The Day the Icicle Works Closed", 1960
- * "The Hated", 1958
- * "The Martian in the Attic", 1960
- * "The Census Takers", 1955
- * "The Children of Night", 1964
- * Afterword: "What the Author Has to Say About All This"In The Problem Pit
- * "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
- * "Golden Ages Gone Away", 1972
- * "Rafferty's Reasons", 1955
- * "I Remember a Winter", 1972
- * "The Schematic Man", 1968
- * "What to Do Until the Analyst Comes", 1955
- * "Some Joys Under the Star", 1973
- * "The Man Who Ate the World", 1956
- * "SF: The Game-Playing Literature", 1971 The Early Pohl :
- * "Elegy for a Dead Planet: Luna", 1937,
- * "The Dweller in the Ice", 1940,
- * "The King's Eye", 1940,
- * "It's a Young World", 1940,
- * "Daughters of Eternity", 1940,
- * "Earth, Farewell!" 1940,
- * "Conspiracy on Callisto", 1943,
- * "Highwayman of the Void", 1943,
- * "Double-Cross", 1943, Critical Mass
- * "Introduction",
- * "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 Henbane", 1961
- * "The Meeting", 1972
- * "The Engineer", 1956
- * "Nightmare with Zeppelins", 1958
- * "Critical Mass", 1962
- * "Afterword", Survival Kit
- * "The Seven Deadly Virtues", 1958
- * "The Knights of Arthur", 1958
- * "Mars by Moonlight", 1958
- * "The Haunted Corpse", 1957
- * "The Middle of Nowhere", 1955
- * "The Day of the Boomer Dukes", 1956
- * "Survival Kit", 1957
- * "I Plinglot, Who You?", 1959Before the Universe
- * "Mars-Tube", 1941
- * "Trouble in Time", 1940
- * "Vacant World", 1940
- * "Best Friend", 1941
- * "Nova Midplane", 1940
- * "The Extrapolated Dimwit", 1942Planets Three, 1982 :
- * "Figurehead, " 1951
- * "Red Moon of Danger", 1951
- * "Donovan Had a Dream", 1947Midas World
- * "The Fire-Bringer",
- * "The Midas Plague", 1954
- * "Servant of the People", 1983
- * "The Man Who Ate the World", 1956
- * "Farmer on the Dole", 1982
- * "The Lord of the Skies", 1983
- * "The New Neighbors", 1983Pohlstars
- * "The Sweet, Sad Queen of the Grazing Isles",
- * "The High Test", 1983
- * "Spending a Day at the Lottery Fair", 1983
- * "Second Coming", 1983
- * "Enjoy, Enjoy", 1974
- * "Growing Up in Edge City", 1975
- * "We Purchased People", 1974
- * "Rem the Rememberer", 1974
- * "The Mother Trip", 1975
- * "A Day in the Life of Able Charlie", 1976
- * "The Way It Was", 1977
- * "The Wizard-Masters of Peng-Shi Angle ", original story 1958, retranslation 1984.Tales from the Planet Earth, created with Elizabeth Anne Hull, a novel with nineteen authors
- * "Sitting Around the Pool, Soaking Up the Rays" 1984
- * "We Servants of the Stars" 1986BiPohl, two novels in one volume:
- * Drunkard's Walk
- * The Age of the PussyfootOur Best: The Best of Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth
- * "Introduction",
- * "The Stories of the Sixties",
- * "Critical Mass", 1962
- * "The World of Myrion Flowers", 1961
- * "The Engineer", 1956
- * "A Gentle Dying", 1961
- * "Nightmare with Zeppelins", 1958
- * "The Quaker Cannon", 1961
- * "The 60/40 Stories",
- * "Trouble in Time ", 1940
- * "Mars-Tube ", ss Astonishing Stories September '41
- * "Epilogue to The Space Merchants",
- * "Gravy Planet",
- * "The Final Stories",
- * "Mute Inglorious Tam", 1974
- * "The Gift of Garigolli", 1974
- * "The Meeting", 1972
- * "Afterword", Platinum Pohl
- * "Introduction",
- * "The Merchants of Venus", 1972
- * "The Things That Happen", 1985
- * "The High Test", 1983
- * "My Lady Green Sleeves", 1957
- * "The Kindly Isle", 1984
- * "The Middle of Nowhere", 1955
- * "I Remember a Winter", 1972
- * "The Greening of Bed-Stuy", 1984
- * "To See Another Mountain", 1959
- * "The Mapmakers", 1955
- * "Spending a Day at the Lottery Fair", 1983
- * "The Celebrated No-Hit Inning", 1956
- * "Some Joys Under the Star", 1973
- * "Servant of the People", 1983
- * "Waiting for the Olympians", 1988
- * "Criticality", 1984
- * "Shaffery Among the Immortals", 1972
- * "The Day the Icicle Works Closed", 1960
- * "Saucery", 1986
- * "The Gold at the Starbow's End", 1972
- * "Growing Up in Edge City", 1975
- * "The Knights of Arthur", 1958
- * "Creation Myths of the Recently Extinct", 1994
- * "The Meeting", 1972
- * "Let the Ants Try", 1949
- * "Speed Trap", 1967
- * "The Day the Martians Came", 1967
- * "Day Million", 1966
- * "The Mayor of Mare Tranq", 1996
- * "Fermi and Frost", 1985
- * "Afterword: Fifty Years and Counting"
Nonfiction
Tiberius Practical Politics 1972 Nebula Winners Fourteen Science Fiction Studies in Film Our Angry Earth- ''Chasing Science: Science as Spectator Sport''
As editor of a compilation of SF short stories
- ''The Expert Dreamers''
Autobiography
- ''The Way the Future Was''