Frederik Pohl

This article is about the writer and editor. For the writer on exploration, see Frederick J. Pohl.

Frederik Pohl
Pohl in 2008 at the J. Lloyd Eaton Science Fiction Conference
Pohl in 2008 at the J. Lloyd Eaton Science Fiction Conference
BornFrederik George Pohl Jr.
(1919-11-26)November 26, 1919
New York City, U.S.
DiedSeptember 2, 2013(2013-09-02) (aged 93)
Palatine, Illinois, U.S.
Pen nameEdson McCann, Jordan Park, Elton V. Andrews, Paul Fleur, Lee Gregor, Warren F. Howard, Scott Mariner, Ernst Mason, James MacCreigh, James McCreigh, Dirk Wilson, Donald Stacy
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • short story author
  • essayist
  • publisher
  • editor
  • literary agent
Period1937–2011
GenreScience fiction
Notable awardsCampbell Memorial Award
1978, 1985

Hugo Award (novel)
1978
National Book Award
1980

Nebula Award (novel)
1976, 1977
Website
www.frederikpohl.com

Frederik George Pohl Jr. (/poʊl/; November 26, 1919 – September 2, 2013) was an American science-fiction writer, editor, and fan, with a career spanning nearly 75 years—from his first published work, the 1937 poem "Elegy to a Dead Satellite: Luna", to the 2011 novel All the Lives He Led.[1]

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.[2] 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.[2] He won the Campbell Memorial Award again for the 1984 collection of novellas The Years of the City, one of two repeat winners during the first 40 years. For his 1979 novel Jem, Pohl won a U.S. National Book Award in the one-year category Science Fiction,[3] and it was a finalist for three other year's best novel awards.[2] He won four Hugo and three Nebula Awards,[2] including receiving both for the 1977 novel Gateway.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named Pohl its 12th recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award in 1993[4] 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.[5][a]

Pohl won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 2010, for his blog, "The Way the Future Blogs".[2][6][7]

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  6. ^ "The Way the Future Blogs, an online memoir by science fiction writer Frederik Pohl". Archived from the original on November 18, 2018.
  7. ^ "Final Ballot for the 2010 Hugo Awards and John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer". Aussiecon 4. 2020. Archived from the original on June 16, 2010.


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