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Frederik Pohl
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born
November 26, 1919
in The United States
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Despite having lived within easy driving distance of Gene Wolfe’s home for the last quarter century — and having read compulsively in those seriously addictive novels he keeps writing — I hesitate to say I know Gene Wolfe. He’s one of those people whom you think you know really well, and then, without warning, some [...]
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Gateway
  4.02 avg rating — 6,857 ratings
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1976
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28 editions
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Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (Heechee Saga, #2)
  3.82 avg rating — 2,132 ratings
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1980
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The Space Merchants
by Frederik Pohl, C.M. Kornbluth 3.84 avg rating — 1,535 ratings
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1953
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Heechee Rendezvous
3.68 avg rating — 1,389 ratings
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1984
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Man Plus
3.66 avg rating — 1,254 ratings
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1976
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The Annals of the Heechee (Heechee Saga 4)
3.63 avg rating — 814 ratings
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1987
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Jem
3.34 avg rating — 458 ratings
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1979
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The World at the End of Time
3.88 avg rating — 338 ratings
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1990
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The Gateway Trip
by Frederik Pohl, Frank Kelly Freas 3.71 avg rating — 286 ratings
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1990
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The Boy Who Would Live Forever: A Novel of Gateway (Heechee 6)
3.43 avg rating — 261 ratings
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2004
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“They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind.”
― Frederik Pohl, Gateway
― Frederik Pohl, Gateway
“I was worried about sex," he went on. "But you know what, Sulie? It's like being told I can't have any caviar for the next couple years. I don't even like caviar. And when you come right down to it, I don't want sex right now. I supposed you punched that into the computer? 'Cut down sex drive, increase euphoria'? Anyway, it finally penetrated my little brain that I was just making trouble for myself, worrying about whether I could get along without something I really didn't want. It's a reflection of what I think other people think I should want.”
― Frederik Pohl, Man Plus
― Frederik Pohl, Man Plus
“On this day I want to tell you about, which will be about a thousand years from now, there were a boy, a girl and a love story.”
― Frederik Pohl, The Best of Frederik Pohl
― Frederik Pohl, The Best of Frederik Pohl
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