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In a vastly overpopulated near-future world, businesses have taken the place of governments and now hold all political power. States exist merely to ensure the survival of huge transnational corporations. Advertising has become hugely aggressive and boasts some of the world's most powerful executives. Through advertising, the public is constantly deluded into thinking that all the products on the market improve the quality of life. However, the most basic elements are incredibly scarce, in...

Frederik Pohl was a famous science-fiction writer.This collection contains the following novels and short stories :PythiasThe Knights of ArthurThe Tunnel Under the WorldPlague of PythonsSurvival KitWolfbaneSearch the SkyThe Five Hells of OrionThe HatedThe Day of the Boomer Dukes

The Hugo and Nebula award-winning author presents a "gripping and vivid" fictional account of the worst nuclear disaster in human history ( Kirkus ).Chernobyl: The very name conjures the terror of nuclear catastrophe. On April 26, 1986, a power surge caused an explosion that spewed radioactive steam into the air. More than four thousand people died, as many as a half-million had potentially cancer-causing exposure, and the...

"An essential treasury" of sci-fi short fiction including the story introducing the Heechee aliens of the Hugo, Nebula, and Campbell Award-winning Gateway ( Booklist) .Acclaimed for his novels, Frederik Pohl is also a master of the science fiction short story. Now, for the first time, he has gathered together the best of his many stories in Platinum Pohl.First published in the 1930s and spanning the decades, these tales are...

A former astronaut turns cyborg for a critical mission to Mars in the Nebula Award–winning sci-fi classic by the author of Gateway.In the not-too-distant future, a global war over natural resources threatens humanity. Nuclear warships position themselves as the American government works feverishly to colonize Mars. Former astronaut Roger Torraway has agreed to undergo a cybernetic transformation into something new, a being that can survive the rigors of Mar...

Frederik Pohl was an influential writer and editor. As an editor he won three Hugo awards for best professional magazine. As a writer he won four Hugo Awards and three Nebulas. Pohl was awarded the title of Grand Master by the Science fiction Writers of America and is a member of the Science Fiction Hall of fame. Collected here are a novel and five stories that helped Pohl carve his name onto the science fiction field. His stories are imaginative and powerful. Included here are 'Preferred ...

In the rigid prison-world of the Jug, Captain Liam O'Leary believes order, rehabilitation, and class duty can hold society together—until he meets Sue-Ann Bradley, a detainee who refuses to accept the role assigned to her. Her case, tied to the forbidden crime of violating the Categoried Class laws, exposes a civilization built on genetic specialization, inherited status, and the dangerous idea that people must never mix across boundaries. O'Leary's confidence begins to crack as he sees th...

On mist-shrouded Venus, an Earth ship waits at the edge of a first contact that is turning into a political powder keg. While the crew assumes the native delegation is merely inspecting cargo, a spy ray locks onto the main hatch, signaling that danger is already in motion. Beneath the surface, Venusian leader Svan and his circle are secretly debating how to stop Earth from sending settlers who could overwhelm their fragile world and destroy their independence. Ruthless and increasingly par...

On a remote, radiation-blasted asteroid where isotope production depends on dangerous machinery and self-repairing robots, John Tinker keeps his wit sharp because everything else is brittle. Stranded with the suspicious Drake and drawn to the voice of Siria Cottrell, he turns loneliness into flirtation, even as the setting warns of catastrophe at every turn. What begins as banter and fascination soon becomes a fight for survival when Tinker sees Drake dragging Siria toward her ship and rea...

Officially dead, Steve Nolan crosses Pluto's frozen wastes on a revenge mission that has kept him alive long after the world buried him. Framed in a corrupt trial and rescued only by the honor of Pete Petersen, he hunts Alan Woller, the man who helped destroy his life, through the dangerous currents of interplanetary commerce and betrayal. Nolan's hard-edged survival instinct is on full display when he bluffs his way aboard a stranded girl's skid, bargains for passage to Avalon, and fights...

In a blasted America where the cities are dangerous, improvised, and half-dead, Sam Dunlap arrives in New York with Arthur, a suitcase-sized brain kept alive in a tank and fitted with typewriter keys for a voice. To protect Arthur and his mysterious cargo, Sam bribes his way into a hotel, then heads into a fortified, lawless former Macy's to buy an electric typewriter, a wheelbarrow, a rifle, and other essentials, discovering a city where canned food rots, skeletons sit forgotten in stalle...

In the radioactive ruins after the Three-Hour War, Dr. Salva Gordy lives amid grief, isolation, and a world that seems to have lost all meaning. A once-promising scientist dismissed by a desperate government, he is still pursued for the invention he guards in secret, even as strange new life begins to stir in the wasteland around him. That fragile solitude is shattered by John de Terry, a biology-trained survivor who recognizes that the local ants are changing in extraordinary ways. Togeth...