Background
Pohl, Frederik was born on November 26, 1919 in New York City. Son of Fred George and Anna Jane (Mason) Pohl.
(Ill luck made Roger Torraway the subject of the Man Plus ...)
Ill luck made Roger Torraway the subject of the Man Plus Programme, but it was deliberate biological engineering which turned him into a monster -- a machine perfectly adapted to survive on Mars. For according to computer predictions, Mars is humankind's only alternative to extinction. But beneath his monstrous exterior, Torraway still carries a man's capacity for suffering.
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(Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe...and on...)
Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe...and on reaches of unimaginable horror. When prospector Bob Broadhead went out to Gateway on the Heechee spacecraft, he decided he would know which was the right mission to make him his fortune. Three missions later, now famous and permanently rich, Robinette Broadhead has to face what happened to him and what he is...in a journey into himself as perilous and even more horrifying than the nightmare trip through the interstellar void that he drove himself to take! THE HEECHEE SAGA Book One:GATEWAY Book Two:BEYOND THE BLUE EVENT HORIZON Book Three: HEECHEE RENDEZVOUS Book Four: THE ANNALS OF THE HEECHEE From the Paperback edition.
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( The Nebula Award–winning masterwork by the author of Ga...)
The Nebula Award–winning masterwork by the author of Gateway In the not-too-distant future, a desperate war for natural resources threatens to bring civilization to a crashing halt. Nuclear warships from around the globe begin positioning themselves as the American government works feverishly to complete a massive project to colonize Mars. Former astronaut Roger Torraway has agreed to be transformed by the latest advances in biological and cybernetic science into something new, a being that can survive the rigors of Mars before it is terraformed. Becoming Man Plus will allow him to be the linchpin in opening the new Martian frontier…but not without challenging his humanity as no man has ever been challenged before. A bestselling, Nebula Award–winning novel when first published more than thirty years ago, this book is now more relevant than ever, as the battle between corporate interests and those who seek to save Earth's natural resources steadily escalates. The question of where man will go once the world's food, water, and oil have run out has yet to be answered. Man Plus by Frederick Pohl is a brilliantly imagined, compelling possible scenario that has enthralled countless readers.
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( A Triumphant New Gateway Adventure Twenty-five years a...)
A Triumphant New Gateway Adventure Twenty-five years after the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning bestseller Gateway, Frederik Pohl returns with a new Gateway novel. Filled with excitement and the sense of wonder that made Gateway a huge success, The Boy Who Would Live Forever is a memorable journey into the unknown. Stan and Estrella, two young people from Earth, journey to the Gateway asteroid looking for adventure, and discover each other during a flight in one of the ships the alien Heechee left behind when they explored our Solar System. Stan and Estrella settle among the Heechee on a planet in the galactic core, never suspecting that the two of them may be the last, best hope to save the humans and Heechee in the core from destruction by a crazed madman. Wan Enrique Santos-Smith, a man full of loathing for the Heechee, will stop at nothing to destroy the Heechee and their human friends. But Stan and Estrella, with the help of a fabulously wealthy philanthropist and the unique machine mind Marc Antony, are determined to thwart Wan's terrible plan. At stake is nothing less than the fate of all life in the galaxy.
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freelance/self-employed writer
Pohl, Frederik was born on November 26, 1919 in New York City. Son of Fred George and Anna Jane (Mason) Pohl.
Editor, Popular Publications, New York City, 1939-1943; editor, Popular Science, New York City, 1946-1949; freelance writer, New York City, 1950-1960, 80—; editor, Galaxy Publications, New York City, 1961-1969; editor, Bantam Books, New York City, 1973-1980.
(Ill luck made Roger Torraway the subject of the Man Plus ...)
( The Nebula Award–winning masterwork by the author of Ga...)
( A Triumphant New Gateway Adventure Twenty-five years a...)
(Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe...and on...)
Served to sergeant United States Army Air Force, 1943-1945. Italy; Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, British Interplanetary Society. Member Science Fiction Writers of America (president 1974-1976, Grand Master award 1993), World Science Fiction (president 1980-1982), Authors Guild, New York Academy Sciences, Astronomical Society Pacific.
Married Carol Ulf, September 15, 1953 (divorced 1981). Children– Ann, Karen, Frederik, Kathy. Married Elizabeth Anne Hull, July 27, 1984.