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Click to view full description | 1. | Bova, Ben; Pohl, Frederik; Pournelle, Jerry; & Sheffield, Charles FUTURE QUARTET: Earth in the Year 2042: A Four-Part Invention
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., (1994). First edition. Fine in dust jacket.
Four of the most respected and prescient speculators on the possible future make projections. SIGNED by sf master Ben Bova on the title-page. Jacket illustration by Vincent DiFate.
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| 2. | Kornbluth, C.M.; Pohl, Frederik, editor THE BEST OF C.M. KORNBLUTH
Garden City, New York: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., (1976). First edition. Issued by the Science Fiction Book Club with code ''G 35'' on page [311]. Owner's name to pastedown, hint of wear at spine ends, thus near fine; in a very good plus age-toned illustrated dust jacket with a closed edge tear and related creasing to upper front panel. Jacket painting by Gary Viskupic.
Nineteen of Kornbluth's best, which means 19 sf tales marked by superb craft, by genuine innovation, and laced with a graceful--oftimes cynical--irony; introduced by collaborator and editor, Pohl; included: ''The Marching Morons'' and ''The Mindworm.''
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| 3. | Pohl, Frederik CHASING SCIENCE: Science as a Spectator Sport
New York: Tor/A Tom Doherty Associates Book, (2000). First edition: Review copy, with materials laid in. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
The science fiction author, winner of the Hugo, Nebula and John Campbell Awards has sought out science in all its forms--as part of the natural world, at work in laboratories, and in museums--and organized the adventures of his curious mind into a book.
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| 4. | Pohl, Frederik CHERNOBYL
Toronto/New York/London/Sydney/Auckland: Bantam Books, (1987). First edition, first printing. Very very nearly fine, virtually as-new, in gilt-stamped terra cotta cloth shelfback over terra cotta boards; in a nearly fine, illustrated dust jacket.
Mainstream novel of the infamous nuclear disaster, based on carefully researched facts, data, and eyewitness notes. ''Grim and gripping, with people as people, not caricatures.''--Isaac Asimov.
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| 5. | Pohl, Frederik DRUNKARD'S WALK
Hicksville, New York: The Gnome Press, Inc., (1960). First hardcover edition, first printing. 3000 copies printed. Jacket design by W.I. Van der Poel, Jr. Dot of pale stain to fore-edge, faint foxing to endsheets, thus near fine, in tan composition binding with black spine lettering; in a very good illustrated dust jacket: soiled, faded, lightly edgeworn, a few tiny edge tears.
Preceded by a 1960 Ballantine PBO. This tale first appeared as a serial in 1960 issues of GALAXY. ''Professor discovers monstrous plot in future.''--Owings and Chalker.
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| 6. | Pohl, Frederik GATEWAY
New York: St. Martin's Press, (1977). Book club edition. Fine; lacking the dust jacket.
Pohl's Hugo and Nebula-winning late career masterpiece, which earned him a whole new generation of readers and launched one of the most impressive phases in a long and distinguished career.
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| 7. | Pohl, Frederik HOMEGOING
New York: Del Rey/ Ballantine Books, (1989). Book club edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket illustrated from a painting by Barclay Shaw.
The Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of the Heechee series and MAN PLUS here writes a lightweight, romantic story of adaptation and confrontation between humans and aliens.
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| 8. | Pohl, Frederik JEM
New York: St. Martin's Press, (1979). Book club edition. Printed with the code J32 on page 313. A near fine copy; in a fine dust jacket that shows some minor age-toning.
Pohl's novel of the colonization of an alien world by the three blocs of humanity: the Food Bloc, the Fuel Bloc and the People Bloc. In the tradition of his MAN PLUS or his classic collaboration with C.M. Kornbluth THE SPACE MERCHANTS.
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| 9. | Pohl, Frederik NARABEDLA LTD.
New York: Ballantine Books/A Del Rey Book, (1988). Book club edition. Fine in a lightly age-toned dust jacket. Jacket painting by Barclay Shaw.
From the venerable, inventive, and indefatigably feisty grand old man of sf, author of THE SPACE MERCHANTS and the Heechee and Cuckoo sagas.
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| 10. | Pohl, Frederik O PIONEER!
New York: Tor / A Tom Doherty Associates Book, (1998). First edition, first printing. Literary agency copy with the Curtis Brown, Ltd. card taped (removable) to the half-title page. Fine in a fine illustrated dust jacket with wraparound cover art by Jim Burns.
Evesham Giyt, a solitary and brilliant computer hacker, uncovers a human plot that threatens the peace between the planet Tupelo's alien species. ''Another fine work from one of our finest craftsman.''--Jack Williamson.
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| 11. | Pohl, Frederik PRACTICAL POLITICS 1972
New York: Ballantine Books, (1971). First edition, first printing: a paperback original. Mild corner crease to rear cover, owner's name to inside front cover, a near fine, apparently unread copy; in wraps.
From the sf veteran, a how-to manual for ''peacenicks, eighteen-year-old voters, preservers of the environment, party reformers, and all who know something's wrong but have been too embarrassed to do anything about it.'' Elusive PBO.
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| 12. | Pohl, Frederik THE ANNALS OF HEECHEE
New York: A Del Rey Book/Ballantine Books, (1987). Second printing. Fine, in gilt-lettered black cloth shelfback over blue boards; in an age-toned, else fine illustrated dust jacket. Jacket art by Darrell K. Sweet.
''The fourth volume in Pohl's popular Heechee Saga takes place 100 years after the first, GATEWAY, when the discovery of abandoned alien spaceships opened the galaxy to human exploration.''--PW.
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| 13. | Pohl, Frederik THE ANNALS OF THE HEECHEE
New York: Ballantine Books/A Del Rey Book, (1987). First edition, first printing. Textblock age-toned, else near fine; in an illustrated dust jacket that shows age-toning and a rumor of rubbing. Jacket art by Darrell K. Sweet.
Fourth in Pohl's splendidly literate, energetic and imaginative late-career series which he launched with the Hugo, Nebula, and John W. Campbell Award-winning GATEWAY. The grand old man of satirical sf at the top of his form.
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| 14. | Pohl, Frederik THE ANNALS OF THE HEECHEE
New York: Ballantine Books/A Del Rey Book, (1987). Book club edition. Near fine in an illustrated dust jacket that shows a hint of age-toning and a rumor of edgewear. Jacket art by Darrell K. Sweet.
Fourth in Pohl's splendidly literate, energetic and imaginative late-career series which he launched with the Hugo, Nebula, and John W. Campbell Award-winning GATEWAY. The grand old man of satirical sf at the top of his form.
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| 15. | Pohl, Frederik THE BEST OF FREDERIK POHL
Garden City, New York: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., (1975). First edition: Issued by the Science Fiction Book Club with the printed code Q6 on page 306. Near fine in an illustrated dust jacket that has some age-toning, small creases to the spine panel, and a very small closed edge tear to the rear panel. Jacket painting is an excellent spaceship painting by the prolific John Berkey.
Nineteen stories from the sf veteran. Includes ''The Tunnel Under the World,'' ''The Snowmen,'' and ''The Martian in the Attic.'' With an introduction by Lester Del Rey and an afterword by Pohl.
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| 16. | Pohl, Frederik THE BEST OF FREDERIK POHL
Garden City, New York: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., (1975). First edition: Issued by the Science Fiction Book Club with the printed code Q6 on page 306. Fine in dust jacket that shows some shallow nicking at the upper front flap, otherwise a bright, sharp example; jacket painting by John C. Berkey. Introduction by Lester Del Rey and an afterword by Pohl.
Featured: ''Day Million,'' ''The Midas Plague,'' ''Speed Trap,'' ''The Tunnel Under the World,'' ''The Snowmen,'' and ''The Martian in the Attic,'' thirteen more.
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| 17. | Pohl, Frederik THE COMING OF THE QUANTUM CATS
Toronto/New York/London/Sydney/Auckland: Bantam Books, (1986). First hardcover edition: issued by the Science Fiction Book Club; with the code Q28 on page 241. Fine in a very mildly age-toned dust jacket that betrays just a hint of edgwear. A nice copy.
Not perhaps the sf veteran's best, but Pohl is never less than entertaining, and this alternate world adventure yarn benefits from the author's trademark narrative energy and compulsively readable prose style. Jacket art by Richard R. Berry.
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| 18. | Pohl, Frederik THE COOL WAR
New York: A Del Rey Book/Ballantine Books, (1981). Book club edition. Printed with the code L36 on page 277. Fine, in an age-toned illustrated dust jacket with an illustration by Murray Tinkelman.
The award-winning author of MAN PLUS brings us the dark, satirical story of the Cool War, the worldwide campaign of sabotage that replaced actual combat on an energy poor Earth of the future.
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| 19. | Pohl, Frederik THE COOL WAR
New York: A Del Rey Book/Ballantine Books, (1981). First edition, first printing. A fine copy in an illustrated dust jacket that shows some very minor age-toning. Jacket illustration by Murray Tinkelman.
In the spirit of his novel JEM, this is the satirical tale of espionage in an energy-poor future Earth.
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| 20. | Pohl, Frederik THE DAY THE MARTIANS CAME
New York: St. Martin's Press, (1988). Book club edition. Fine in an illustrated dust jacket with a hint of rubbing and one tiny corner crease to front flap.
Novel constructed of a series of linked stories, some of which have appeared before. Sharp-edged social commentary by the sf veteran concerns the titular Martians who are brought to Earth in an American spaceship returning from a colonization mission.
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