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I was about seventeen when my thoughts turned seriously to invention. Then I observed to my delight that I could visualize with the greatest facility. I needed no models, drawings or experiments. I could picture them all as real in my mind." - p 33, My Inventions, Nikola Tesla, 1995, Barnes & Noble Books a b Worlds of If 21.6, issue 161 (Jul–Aug 1972) publication contents at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved 2014-12-12. Elegy for a Dead Planet: Luna", 1937, (writing as Elton Andrews) [a poem, his first published piece] He had another series of books for a complementary story line. The’ Eschaton Sequence’ that had some scientific concepts added a taste of fiction. The storyline was unique and showed the talent that Pohl had. This series earned him scientific awards due to the nature of concepts he used. The Far Shore of Time and The Siege of Eternity gave the complete storyline of the Eschaton Sequence. The Expert Dreamers (1962) (Introduction by Pohl; short stories by Morrison, Frisch, Gamow, Asimov, Walter, Willey, Latham, Davis, Hoyle, Ellanby, Norbert, Gregor, Correy, Smith, Szilard)

Reginald, R. (September 2010). Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature - R. Reginald. Wildside Press LLC. ISBN 9780941028776 . Retrieved April 29, 2013. The Years of the City (1984)—winner of the Campbell Memorial Award, sixth place Locus Collection. [2] [5] The Years of the City is a collection of five linked novellas, two previously published.A century in the future, humans land on Venus and colonize it. Below the surface, thousands of miles of artificial tunnels are discovered. They are believed to have been built thousands of years ago by an alien species known as the Heechee, but little else is known about them until an explorer discovers a Heechee ship, intact and operational, in one of the tunnels. In preparing this column over the past few years, I’ve gotten a new appreciation for many of the science fiction authors from the last century, and their place in history. I may have known many of their stories and books, but I didn’t know much about the authors themselves. One author I’d encountered without appreciating his full impact on the science fiction field was Frederik Pohl. I had read a couple of his books—both co-authored books from early in his career—and a few of his short stories from here or there. One of them, The Reefs of Space, I recently found in a used bookstore, and reviewed here. In preparing the biography segment for that review, I found out Pohl was not only a science fiction writer, he was involved in the field in many other ways. Ryder, M.J. (July 23, 2020). "Lessons from science fiction: Frederik Pohl and the robot prosumer" (PDF). Journal of Consumer Culture. 22: 246–263. doi: 10.1177/1469540520944228. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 13, 2020. Gateway (1977)—winner of the Campbell Memorial, Hugo, Locus SF, and Nebula Awards as the year's Best Novel [2] [3] [4]

Between bouts of chain smoking, we are treated to Rob’s terrible personal inner thoughts throughout the book. He’s prone to pointless verbal altercations with Klara. His inner dialogue chalks up fights he started with Klara’s “pre-menstrual behavior”. But a key moment in the book reveals who our protagonist truly is. Congratulations to Britannica Contributor and 2010 Hugo Award Winner Frederik Pohl | Britannica Blog". Britannica.com. September 8, 2010 . Retrieved August 10, 2014. Robinette Broadhead took that chance and walked awaya winner. But at what cost? Despite living a millionaire’s life of material luxury, he’s haunted by crippling despair—and the dark secrets buried deep in his psyche. With the help of his computerized psychiatrist, the truth about whathappened “out there” could set Broadhead free. But only after a personal journey more terrifying and, ultimately, more devastating than his last fateful trip into space. No, no," he shrilled crossly, taking it away from her and marching crossly into the chamber. "You do not pray with them. You read them. Like this."" - p 138The Way the Future Blogs, an online memoir by science fiction writer Frederik Pohl". Archived from the original on November 18, 2018.

In etymology, two or more words in the same language are called doublets or etymological twins (or possibly triplets, etc.) when they have different phonological forms but the same etymological root. Often, but not always, the variants have entered the language through different routes. Because the relationship between words that have the same root and the same meaning is fairly obvious, the term is mostly used to characterize pairs of words that have diverged in meaning at least to some extent. The Boy Who Would Live Forever", Far Horizons, ed. Robert Silverberg ( Avon Books, May 1999), pp.295–342

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This was a good sci-fi story. The Heechee Saga is definitely one of the better sci-fi series I've read over the years. It has the right balance between the characters and the harder sci-fi aspects of the story. The old geezer Peter was a member of the Hitler youth when he was young. Because of course he was, he's German! I don't know how that is supposed to fit into the time line of Gateway ... but ... he was a Nazi ... and maybe still is? On board the giant Heechee Heaven station, the explorers interrogate the Dead Men, finding them barely sane and mostly useless. The Old Ones capture Wan, Janine, and Lurvey. They are each subjected to a device like the dreaming couch, where they relive memories of dozens of dead Old Ones, with the oldest memory being that of a creature that is not a Heechee, but rather one that was captured by Heechee scientists more than half a million years ago for study on Earth--an Australopithecus, an ancestor of modern man. The missing Heechee left a colony of Old Ones onboard Heechee Heaven in the care of a machine intelligence of an ancient Old One, hoping that further intelligence would evolve in the species if shepherded carefully. The Old Ones are gentle and intelligent, possessing language and rudimentary culture, but are relatively dimwitted compared to men, and live in fear of the mechanical Oldest One, who they consider a god. The point is, I don't see where suppliant & supplicant have diverged, they seem to have the same meaning - w/ suppliant coming 1st. What is Pohl really up to here? It's obvious to me that everything in this novel is just a smokescreen to hide the combined significance of "Ph" & "suppliant". Don't believe me? That's b/c yr pH balance is alkaline & I'm acid-tongued (both literally & figuratively). Further supporting my theory is this: ""That's not exactly a tenth of a number, Robin," said Sigfrid." (p 230) The careful reader will note that the psychoanalyzing program is credited w/ this sentence when it shd clearly be the science program, Albert. En Pórtico, aprendimos que la humanidad ha dado un salto tecnológico tan espectacular como fortuito gracias a los artefactos que una antigua y ya desaparecida civilización alienígena —los Heechee— ha dejado a su paso por nuestro sistema solar. El único inconveniente es que la utilidad de estos hallazgos escapa por completo a nuestra comprensión y su empleo conlleva una serie de riesgos que resultan letales en la mayoría de casos. No obstante, empujadas por las precarias condiciones en que se halla la Tierra (superpoblación, hambrunas, contaminación, inestabilidad económica, etc.), cada vez más personas se embarcan en misiones suicidas a bordo de estas naves alienígenas con la remota esperanza de realizar nuevos descubrimientos y llevarse un exorbitante botín por ello.

Jesus, Rob," she said, pushing me away, gently enough, "when you say something you say a lot, don't you? So hold it for a while. It'll keep." Frederik Pohl (1919-2013) was a prolific and profoundly influential American science fiction author, who also helped to shape the genre as a fan writer, academic, non-fiction writer, editor, and literary agent. He was a member of the seminal science fiction fan club the Futurians. He served as a weatherman in the Army Air Corps during World War II. In addition to his solo writings, Pohl was also well known for his collaborations, beginning with his first published story. Before and following the war, Pohl did a series of collaborations with his friend Cyril Kornbluth, including a large number of short stories and several novels, among them The Space Merchants, a dystopian satire of a world ruled by the advertising agencies. [46] National Book Awards Winners and Finalists, The National Book Foundation". Nationalbook.org . Retrieved August 10, 2014. They tidied up behind them, as they always did. Then they went away and allowed the rest of that particular experiment, among all their experiments, to run.Gateway took this initial concept one step further by postulating an asteroid, overlooked because of its orbit outside the plane of the ecliptic, filled with Heechee tunnels and artifacts as well as hundreds of faster-than-light spaceships, equipped with landers, which could depart to random destinations. An international corporation is established to manage the exploration and whatever treasures are found, and human “prospectors” from Earth who can pay the price to travel to the Gateway are sent out to explore. His works include not only science fiction, but also articles for Playboy and Family Circle magazines and nonfiction books. For a time, he was the official authority for Encyclopædia Britannica on the subject of Emperor Tiberius. (He wrote a book on the subject of Tiberius, as "Ernst Mason".) [31] In the mid-1970s, Pohl acquired and edited novels for Bantam Books, published as "A Frederik Pohl Selection"; these included Samuel R. Delany's Dhalgren and Joanna Russ's The Female Man. He also edited a number of science-fiction anthologies. The Boy Who Would Live Forever: A Novel of Gateway (2004), nominated for the Campbell Memorial Award [2] [6]