Frederick Pohl

Frederick Pohl is an american science fiction writer and editor. In early adulthood, he lived in New York, and was a member of the Futurians fan group.

He was a friend and collabarator with [C.M. Kornbluth]?, co-authoring a number of short stories with him and several novels, including a dystopian satire of a world ruled by the advertising agencies, The Space Merchants. Besides the Space Merchants, a number of his short stories were notable for a satirical look at consumerism and advertising in the 1950s and 1960s: The Wizard of Pung's Corner, where flashy, overcomplex military hardware proves useless against farmers with shotguns, and The Tunnel Under the world, where an entire community is held captive by advertising researchers (this one-line summary omits several plot twists).

He edited [Galaxy science fiction]? magazine in the 1960s.

• Slave Ship
• Wolfbane (with Kornbluth)
• The Space Merchants (with Kornbluth)
• Gadiator at Law (with Kornbluth)
• Drunkards Walk
• The Age of the Pussyfoot
• Man Plus
• The Heechee series:
  • Gateway (winner of the Hugo award)
  • Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
  • Heechee rendezvous
  • Annals of the Heechee
• Narabedla

He has published an autobiography, The Way the Future Was