Frederik Pohl Libros

La amenzada de la destruccion perseguia a los Heechee cuando decidieron desaparacer para proteger su civilizacion. Durante mas de quinientos mil anos han permanecido ocultos en los agujeros negros del universo sin que nadie sospechara de su existencia. Ahora, sin embargo, el hombre ha encontrado las pocas huellas que los delataban y los Heechee estan de nuevo en peligro. Pero esta vez el futuro de la humanidad tambien esta en juego. Robinette Broadhead, el heroe protagonista de la serie, debera proteger a las dos razas enzarzadas en una lucha desigual contra un enemigo muy poderoso.

Contents Report From the Planet Earth • essay by Frederik Pohl The Last Word • essay by Elizabeth Anne Hull Sitting Around the Pool, Soaking Up the Rays • (1984) • short story by Frederik Pohl The Thursday Events • short story by Ye Yonglie User Friendly • short story by Spider Robinson Life as an Ant • short story by André Carneiro Fiddling for Waterbuffaloes • (1986) • novella by S.P. Somtow [as by Somtow Sucharitkul ] S Is for Snake • short story by Lino Aldani The Divided Carla • (1985) • novelette by Josef Nesvadba The View From the Top of the Tower • (1986) • short story by Harry Harrison Don't Knock the Rock • short story by A. Bertram Chandler The Owl of Bear Island • short story by Jon Bing Contacts of a Fourth Kind • short story by Ljuben Dilov Infestation • short story by Brian W. Aldiss In the Blink of an Eye • short story by Carlos Maria Federici Particularly Difficult Territory • short story by Janusz A. Zajdel Time Everlasting • short story by Sam Lundwall The Middle Kingdom • short story by Tong Enzheng and Elizabeth Anne Hull On the Inside Track • novelette by Karl-Michael Armer The Legend of the Paper Spaceship • (1978) • novelette by Tetsu Yano We Servants of the Stars • short story by Frederik Pohl Notes on Contributors • essay by uncredited

A Guide to the Perplexed (1980) (essay) by Frederik Pohl; The Persistence of Vision (1978) by John Varley; Stone (1978) by Edward Bryant; A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn's Eye (1977) by Charles L. Grant; Science 1938 (1980) (essay) by Isaac Asimov; The Future of Science Fiction (1980) (essay) by Norman Spinrad; Dreamsnake (Excerpt) (1978) by Vonda N. McIntyre; Little Green Men from Afar (1976) (essay) by L. Sprague de Camp; Cassandra (1978) by C. J. Cherryh; Seven American Nights (1978) by Gene Wolfe.

Ballantine paperback, 4th printing (1975) with Karl Swanson. The novel was first serialized in Galaxy Magazine in 1956, and published in book form the following year. Pohl has a reputation of one of SF's master satirists; this novel is about a world in the throes of a low-intensity global war, which appears to be an amplified representation of the Vietnam War (in which the U.S. was just becoming involved).

In Book Two of the Heechee Saga, Robinette Broadhead is on his way to making a fortune by bankrolling an expedition to the Food Factory--a Heechee spaceship that can graze the cometary cloud and transfor the basic elements of the universe into untold quantities of food. But even as he gambles on the breakthrough technology, he is wracked with the guilt of losing his wife, poised forever at the "event horizon" of a black hole where Robin had abaondoned her. As more and more information comes back from the expedition, Robin grows ever hopeful that he can rescue his beloved Gelle-Klara Moynlin. After three and a years, the factory is discovered to work, and a human is found aboard. Robin's suffering may be just about over.... THE HEECHEE SAGA Book One: Gateway Book Two: Beyond the Blue Event Horizon Book Three: Heechee Rendezvous Book Four: The Annals of the Heechee

Wealth . . . or death. Those were the choices Gateway offered. Humans had discovered this artificial spaceport, full of working interstellar ships left behind by the mysterious, vanished Heechee. Their destinations are preprogrammed. They are easy to operate, but impossible to control. Some came back with discoveries which made their intrepid pilots rich; others returned with their remains barely identifiable. It was the ultimate game of Russian roulette, but in this resource-starved future there was no shortage of desperate volunteers.

CAUTION! You are about to enter a world... where all engineering ingenuity has been employed for public spectacles of torture and death where the stock market operates with pari-mutuel machines where a court clerk transcribes testimony on punch cards, then feeds it to a jury machine where the dream real-estate development of today has become a cracked-concrete savage jungle In this world, young lawyer Charles Mundin battles a great combine of corporate interests—battles them in board meetings and in dark alleys—in a struggle that lays bare some brutal promises of the future...promises we are beginning to make right now. “...wholly admirable, in both thinking and execution.”—Galaxy “Reminiscent in vigor, bite and acumen to THE SPACE MERCHANTS”—Anthony Boucher. “...possessed of a bite and savage vigor which makes it one of the outstanding science fiction novels of the year.”—The New York Times “...a powerfully convincing story.”—New York Herald Tribune

It is the 20th Century, an advertisement-drenched world in which the big ad agencies dominate governments and everything else. Now Schoken Associates, one of the big players, has a new challenge for star copywriter Mitch Courtenay. Volunteers are needed to colonise Venus. It's a hellhole, and nobody who knew anything about it would dream of signing up. But by the time Mitch has finished, they will be queuing to get on board the spaceships.

MONSTERS OF THE DEEP.... Everyone at the academy knew that sea serpents were, without doubt, silly superstitions. Everyone but David Craken, that is. This young cadet from Marinia had been born and raised four miles beneath the waves, and he knew that more than rich new fuel sources and precious stones lay in wait for the men who dared invade this last frontier. But when David dived into the depths at thirteen hundred feet and disappeared -- only to reappear, drifting offshore months later -- his friend Jim Eden learned there was more truth to certain superstitions than he cared to believe. On a strange and hazardous journey, Jim and the men of the sub-Sea Academy suddenly found themselves up against the dangerous creatures of the deep -- and embroiled in a life-against-life adventure they would never forget!

If There Were No Benny Cemoli • (1963) • novelette by Philip K. DickHot Planet • (1963) • short story by Hal ClementA Day on Death Highway • (1963) • novelette by H. Chandler ElliottComic Inferno • (1963) • novelette by Brian W. AldissFinal Encounter • (1964) • novelette by Harry HarrisonThe End of the Race • (1964) • short story by Albert BermelAnd All the Earth a Grave • (1963) • short story by C. C. MacAppThe Lonely Man • (1963) • novelette by Theodore L. ThomasDawningsburgh • (1962) • short story by Wallace WestCritical Mass • (1962) • novelette by Frederik Pohl and C. M. KornbluthThe Big Engine • (1962) • short story by Fritz LeiberA Bad Day for Vermin • (1964) • short story by Keith LaumerThe Varieties of the Science-Fiction Experience • essay by Frederik Pohl