Frederik George Pohl, Jr. (/ˈpoʊl/; November 26, 1919 – September 2, 2013) was an American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning more than seventy-five years—from his first published work, the 1937 poem "Elegy to a Dead Satellite: Luna", to the 2011 novel All the Lives He Led and articles and essays published in 2012.From about 1959 until 1969, Pohl edited Galaxy and its sister magazine If; the latter won three successive annual Hugo Awards as the year's best professional magazine. His 1977 novel Gateway won four "year's best novel" awards: the Hugo voted by convention participants, the Locus voted by magazine subscribers, the Nebula voted by American science fiction writers, and the juried academic John W. Campbell Memorial Award. He won the Campbell Memorial Award again for the 1984 collection of novellas Years of the City, one of two repeat winners during the first forty years. For his 1979 novel Jem, Pohl won a U.S. National Book Award in the one-year category Science Fiction. It was a finalist for three other years' best novel awards. He won four Hugo and three Nebula Awards.The Science Fiction Writers of America named Pohl its 12th recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award in 1993 and he was inducted by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 1998, its third class of two dead and two living writers.Pohl won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 2010, for his blog, "The Way the Future Blogs".
If you read science fiction, nothing ever takes you by surprise. [in a 1987 interview with the Washington Post]
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There are well understood terms of engagement between the people who write for publication, on one hand, and the academics and critics who discuss it, on the other. Writers write. Then the academics explain what the writer has written and the critics explain how it could have been written so much better.
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In the 1930s, he helped organize the Futurians, a group of sci-fi fans that included several future authors.
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He is considered a pioneer of the "anti-utopian" branch of science fiction, in which an outwardly well-organized society collapses from internal rivalries and greed.
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Despite being a high school dropout, he was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and often spoke to military groups and NASA scientists.
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He dropped out of high school, and later served in the US Army during WWII as a weatherman in Italy. After the war, he wrote advertising copy for a mail-order publisher.
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In August 2009, Mr. Pohl received an Honorary Degree from Brooklyn Technical High School. He attended the school for three years some 75 years before but did not graduate.
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Guest of honor at UNICON I science-fiction convention (University of Maryland, April 11-13, 1975).
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Won Hugo Awards for his novel "Gateway" and for his short stories "The Meeting" and "Fermi and Frost"
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Won Nebula Awards for his novels "Man Plus" and "Gateway".
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Famous American science fiction novelist, editor and literary agent. A lifelong friend of Isaac Asimov and Cyril M. Kornbluth, with whom he collaborated on such popular novels as "The Space Merchants" (1953). He was barely into his twenties when he became the first editor of the magazines "Astounding Stories" and "Super Science Stories" and was later respected as editor of "Galaxy Science Fiction" and of its companion publications, "If," "Worlds of Tomorrow," and "Magabook."
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