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Contains 12 stories of science fiction by a great writer including: In the Problem Pit; Let the Ants Try; To See Another Mountain; The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass; Golden Ages Gone Away; Rafferty's Reasons; I Remember a Winter; The Schematic Man; What to Do Until the Analyst Comes; Some Joys... More

Collected here are five adventures from Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master and Science Fiction Hall of Fame member, Frederik Pohl. Each of these stories will transport you to an imaginative place and time. Pohl was one of the best science fiction writers of all time and these are some o... More

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... More

Thomas Wills is a claims adjuster. That doesn't sound like much, but the insurance company he works for rules the world with an Iron fist. Thomas Wills believes he is working for the greatest company in the history of mankind. But when he meets Rena dell'Angela he learns that everything is not as it... More

Sure, Larry Connaught saved my life--but it was how he did it that forced me to murder him!... More

This guard smelled trouble and it could be counted on to come--for a nose for trouble was one of the many talents bred here! A classic novella about the future of law enforcement by Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master Frederik Pohl.... More

A delightful time travel romp. What happens when a bored criminal from the future returns to a more exciting time in the past? Foraminifera 9-Hart Bailey's Beam is about to find out. He's gathered a cache of high-tech weapons to take back in time with him, with the intention of teaming up with the l... More

After space, there was always one more river to cross . . . the far side of hatred and murder!... More

Guy Burckhardt wakes up screaming, but can't remember the nightmare that caused his fright. Slowly over the next couple of days he comes to realize he's been reliving the same day over and over. And things only get stranger and more frightening from there. One of the true classics of science fiction... More

[from inside dust jacket flaps] Frederik Pohl has produced a brilliant vision of the future which in its scope, intelligence, and humor will appeal to readers of every interest. The Earth on which the curtain rises is not an unfamiliar one: a spirit of cooperation and mutual interdependence among c... More

This book features stories by Andre Norton, Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Alfred Bester and Ray Bradbury. This is the second volume of books featuring stories by those who have been named Grand Masters by this prestigious organization. These are well-chosen stories and there is a brief biographi... More

From the Jacket: Ray Bradbury: COME INTO MY CELLAR. Boys! You can raise Giant Mushrooms in your cellar . . . and that's by no means all! Lester Del Rey: RETURN ENGAGEMENT. Something had been lost . . . He couldn't find it anywhere on Earth—for it was elsewhere! Fritz Leiber: THE BEAT CLUSTER. The... More

Frederick Pohl, Jack Vance, Damon Knight, Van Vogt, Del Rey .. truly science fiction grand masters. This is the third and final volume in the SFWA series which showcases works by the true greats of science fiction.... More

In 1980 Fred Pohl published Gateway which began a series of books about man's discovery of the leavings of a superior civilization who seem to simply have vanished. What do the Heechee look like? Where did they go? What will happen when we make contact? And.... What if someone is trying to destr... More

7 stories from Pohl: The Abominable Earthman, We Never Mention Aunt Nora, A Life and a Half, Punch, The Martian Star-Gazers, Whatever Counts, and Three Portraits and a Prayer... More

Dekker DeWoe, born on Mars, studies on Earth to become an asteroid miner and to create an atmosphere on Mars. But Earth investors are turning to schemes that are more profitable than the Martian colonies.... More

A violet ring slipped free of the alien spaceship. It spun on its axis twice, like a coin on a tabletop, and then rushed toward them.... More

Sandy Washington was a pretty normal guy He was a good friend, sensitive and caring. He respected his elders and obeyed his teachers. He loved basketball, old movies, and writing poetry, And he worshiped the photograph of his long-dead mother. The only real difference between Sandy and any o... More

There are mysterious goings-on at the Cathouse in Albuquerque, the site of the nation's most hush-hush experiments in quantum mechanics...... More

Alternating Currents BY Frederik Pohl... More

Frederik Pohl is a very fine fellow--fondly known in science fiction circles for the social commentary in the satires he has written in collaboration with C. M. Kornbluth, and under his own authorship. Aficionados know also that Pohl's science fiction is strictly non-fantastic--in fact even old-fash... More

Astronomer Harry Malibert is at an airport when nuclear war breaks out. Having been recognised by a fan, he is offered a seat on a plane to Iceland. Though most of Reykjavík has been destroyed by a thermonuclear weapon, the rest of the Iceland has been left untouched. Malibert and the remaining surv... More

Astronomer Harry Malibert is at an airport when nuclear war breaks out. Having been recognised by a fan, he is offered a seat on a plane to Iceland. Though most of Reykjavík has been destroyed by a thermonuclear weapon, the rest of the Iceland has been left untouched. Malibert and the remaining surv... More

From the book jacket: Roger Torraway watched in horror as the monster lurched, toppled over and died. Project Man Plus had gone suddenly and drastically wrong. The race to colonize Mars was too important, too costly, and America was already too committed, for plans to be scrapped. They would hav... More

First of all, Arthur was a machine. He rode out the missile attack that shattered the United States safe at sea aboard a hospital ship. But when he took to land with two friends -- human friends -- that's when things got dicey. Because an Artificial Intelligence with his skills could do a lot of wor... More