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Frederik Pohl Super Pack: A Positronic Book
Paperback
Series: Positronic Super Pack, Book 13
ISBN13: 9781515403296
Publisher: Positronic Publishing
Published: Dec 20 2015
Pages: 322
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Frederik Pohl Super Pack gathers a novel and five stories by one of the most important figures in twentieth-century science fiction. Frederik Pohl was not only a major writer, but also one of the field's defining editors, a shaper of magazines, authors, ideas, and reader expectations across decades of change. As an editor he won three Hugo Awards for Best Professional Magazine; as a writer he won four Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards. He was later named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America and inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.
Collected here are Preferred Risk, The Day of the Boomer Dukes, The Tunnel Under the World, The Hated, Pythias, and The Knights of Arthur. Together they show Pohl's remarkable range: social satire, psychological pressure, corporate manipulation, future war, artificial reality, political absurdity, and the strange human costs of progress. Pohl's best science fiction was never merely about gadgets or distant futures; it was about systems, power, advertising, fear, conformity, and the ways ordinary people are shaped by worlds they barely understand.
At more than three hundred pages, this Positronic Super Pack offers a substantial introduction to Frederik Pohl's sharp, imaginative, and often unsettling fiction. Readers of classic science fiction, dystopian fiction, satirical SF, Cold War-era speculation, and magazine-era science fiction will find here the intelligence, bite, and narrative force that helped make Pohl one of the essential names in the genre. Explore other Positronic Publishing Super Packs for more classic science fiction, fantasy, and adventure.
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