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 Hall of fame. Collected here are a novel and five stories that helped Pohl carve his name onto the science fiction field. His stories are imaginative and powerful. Included here are Preferred Risk, The Day of the Boomer Dukes, The Tunnel Under The World, The Hated, Pythias, and The Knights of...
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...
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 seems. His company enforces complete compilation to their rules with a deep freeze vault that anyone who violates their rules is imprisoned in. Once he learns the truth he must decide what to do about it.
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 Will...
Eighteen men and two women in the closed world of a space ship for five months can only spell tension and trouble-but in this case, the atmosphere was literally poisoned. Five months out from Earth, we were half-way to Saturn and three-quarters of the way to murder. At least, I was. I was sick of the feuding, the worries and the pettiness of the other nineteen aboard. My stomach heaved at the bad food, the eternal smell of people, and the constant sound of nagging and complaints. For ten lead pennies, I'd have gotten out into space and tried walking back to Earth. Sometimes I thought about...
Eighteen men and two women in the closed world of a space ship for five months can only spell tension and trouble-but in this case, the atmosphere was...
Wilbur Hawkes is missing the last seven months of his life. Something happened during that time he's certain of it. Some thing important, important enough that people are trying to kill him to make sure he doesn't remember what it was. Can Hawks avoid pursuit long enough to figure out why he's a hunted man, and even if his memory does return will it be enough to save him?
Wilbur Hawkes is missing the last seven months of his life. Something happened during that time he's certain of it. Some thing important, important en...
