History Creator / FrederikPohl

Frederik Pohl (1919-2013) was an American science fiction writer and editor. His first professional publication was in 1937; his last novel, ''All the Lives He Led'', was published in April 2011. He also started a blog, which earned him the 2010 HugoAward for Best Fan Writer. This was his seventh Hugo, joining one for Best Novel, two for Best Short Story, and three for Best Professional Magazine. He is the only person to have won Hugos both for writing and editing. He has also won two UsefulNotes/{{Nebula Award}}s for Best Novel. He was declared a [[SFWAGrandMasterAward Grand Master of Science Fiction]] in 1992.

Frederik Pohl (1919-2013) was an American science fiction writer and editor. His first professional publication was in 1937; his last novel, ''All the Lives He Led'', was published in April 2011. He also started a blog, which earned him the 2010 HugoAward for Best Fan Writer. This was his seventh Hugo, joining one for Best Novel, two for Best Short Story, and three for Best Professional Magazine. He is the only person to have won Hugos both for writing and editing. He has also won two {{Nebula Award}}s for Best Novel. He was declared a [[SFWAGrandMasterAward Grand Master of Science Fiction]] in 1992.

** ''The Coming of the Quantum Cats'' takes place in several alternate universes. RonaldReagan is still an actor (and still married to Jane Wyman) in a Muslim-dominated Earth, while in another Nancy Reagan is President and Reagan is First Gentleman. In that timeline, UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy was never elected President, and is still a Senator in the 1980s (instead of Ted, who died at Chappquidick). Pohl also includes a joking reference to his old friend Creator/IsaacAsimov; in an alternate timeline where Russia never became the USSR, Asimov's family stayed in Russia, where he became a famous surgeon. In reality, Asimov briefly considered becoming a medical doctor, but chose biochemistry instead.

** ''The Coming of the Quantum Cats'' takes place in several alternate universes. RonaldReagan is still an actor (and still married to Jane Wyman) in a Muslim-dominated Earth, while in another Nancy Reagan is President and Reagan is First Gentleman. In that timeline, JohnFKennedy was never elected President, and is still a Senator in the 1980s (instead of Ted, who died at Chappquidick). Pohl also includes a joking reference to his old friend Creator/IsaacAsimov; in an alternate timeline where Russia never became the USSR, Asimov's family stayed in Russia, where he became a famous surgeon. In reality, Asimov briefly considered becoming a medical doctor, but chose biochemistry instead.

* ApocalypseHow: [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX2 Stellar/Physical Annihilation]]: In ''The World at the End of Time'' war between plasma-based beings that live inside stars results in the destruction of uncountable solar systems. The war is fought by directing energies into a star that tear apart the beings. It has the side effect of causing the stars that the beings inhabit to go nova. That side affect is used to exterminate biological entities before they might threaten the beings. One notable example is the destruction of a Wolf Rayet type star when one being tricks another into believing that is the type of star he prefers. [[spoiler:It is revealed to be ''the'' Sun, and takes out Earth and all human civilisation except the colony the story is set in.]]

Frederik Pohl is an American science fiction writer and editor. His first professional publication was in 1937 and he is still active; the novel ''All the Lives He Led'', was published in April 2011. He also started a blog, which earned him the 2010 HugoAward for Best Fan Writer. This was his seventh Hugo, joining one for Best Novel, two for Best Short Story, and three for Best Professional Magazine; he is the only person to have won Hugos both for writing and editing. He has also won two {{Nebula Award}}s for Best Novel. He was declared a [[SFWAGrandMasterAward Grand Master of Science Fiction]] in 1992.

* ApocalypseHow: [[ApocalypseHow/{{ClassX-2}} Stellar/Physical Annihilation]]: In ''The World at the End of Time'' war between plasma-based beings that live inside stars results in the destruction of uncountable solar systems. The war is fought by directing energies into a star that tear apart the beings. It has the side effect of causing the stars that the beings inhabit to go nova. That side affect is used to exterminate biological entities before they might threaten the beings. One notable example is the destruction of a Wolf Rayet type star when one being tricks another into believing that is the type of star he prefers. [[spoiler:It is revealed to be ''the'' Sun, and takes out Earth and all human civilisation except the colony the story is set in.]]

* ScienceMarchesOn: In ''Search the Sky'', Azor's sun is described as having "an unpleasant bluish cast". This means it's a small-end A star. However, Ross's contact at Cavallo speaks of a man who came seventy-five years earlier, and who is later revealed to be recently deceased. It is now known that the Goldilocks belt of an A star is much too far out for a world to have a year comparable to Earth's.

* "[[DangerousVisions The Day After the Day the Martians Came]]"

Frederik Pohl is an American science fiction writer and editor. His first professional publication was in 1937 and he is still active; the novel ''All the Lives He Led'', was published in April 2011. He also started a blog, which earned him the 2010 HugoAward for Best Fan Writer. This was his seventh Hugo, joining one for Best Novel, two for Best Short Story, and three for Best Professional Magazine; he is the only person to have won Hugos both for writing and editing. He has also won two {{Nebula Award}}s for Best Novel.

Frederik Pohl is an American science fiction writer and editor. His first professional publication was in 1937 and he is still active; ''All the Lives He Led'', was published in April 2011. He also started a blog, which earned him the 2010 HugoAward for Best Fan Writer. This was his seventh Hugo, joining one for Best Novel, two for Best Short Story, and three for Best Professional Magazine; he is the only person to have won Hugos both for writing and editing. He has also won two {{Nebula Award}}s for Best Novel.

Frederik Pohl is an American science fiction writer and editor. His first professional publication was in 1937 and he is still active; his most recent novel, ''All the Lives He Led'', was published in April 2011. He also recently started a blog, which earned him the 2010 HugoAward for Best Fan Writer. This was his seventh Hugo, joining one for Best Novel, two for Best Short Story, and three for Best Professional Magazine; he is the only person to have won Hugos both for writing and editing. He has also won two {{Nebula Award}}s for Best Novel.

* UnderTheSea: The setting for the ''Undersea Trilogy'' (by Pohl & Creator/JackWilliamson) unsurprisingly.

* MeetCute: In ''Day Million'', Don and Dora are explicitly said to have "met cute".

* TeleportersAndTransporters: ''Farthest Star'' and ''Wall Around A Star'' written with Creator/JackWilliamson, feature a form of teleportation that sends a copy of you elsewhere but leaves the original intact. The copy can be modified ''en route,'' since all you're transmitting is information. Interestingly, this is how most physicists figure real-life teleportation might work.

* TeleportersAndTransporters: A duology of novels, ''Farthest Star'' and ''Wall Around A Star'' by Pohl & Williamson, feature a form of teleportation that sends a copy of you elsewhere but leaves the original intact. The copy can be modified ''en route,'' since all you're transmitting is information. Interestingly, this is how most physicists figure real-life teleportation might work.

* GroundhogDayLoop: In ''The Tunnel Under the World'', by FrederikPohl, Guy Burckhardt lives in a town where June 15th is repeated every day, but the inhabitants don't realize.

* SettlingTheFrontier: The ''Undersea Trilogy'', by Pohl and Jack Williamson, was one of the first in-depth (if you'll pardon the pun) explorations of the notion of colonizing the bottom of the sea.
* SolarCPR: In ''Wolfsbane'' by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth Earth's moon is turned into an artificial sun to keep the Earth livable since it was stolen from the solar system by aliens. The moon needs to be relighted periodically.

* TeleportersAndTransporters: A duology of novels, ''Farthest Star'' and ''Wall Around A Star'' by Frederik Pohl & Jack Williamson, feature a form of teleportation that sends a copy of you elsewhere but leaves the original intact. The copy can be modified ''en route,'' since all you're transmitting is information. Interestingly, this is how most physicists figure real-life teleportation might work.
* YouCanAlwaysTellALiar: In ''The Space Merchants'' by Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth, the protagonist Mitch Courtenay and his estranged wife, Kathy, each know the other's "Tell". This is a hint about how much they know and love each other.

Frederik Pohl is an American science fiction writer. His first professional publication was in 1937 and he is still active; his most recent novel, ''All the Lives He Led'', was published in April 2011. He also recently started a blog, which earned him the 2010 HugoAward for Best Fan Writer. This was his seventh Hugo, joining one for Best Novel, two for Best Short Story, and three for Best Professional Magazine; he is the only person to have won Hugos both for writing and editing. He has also won two {{Nebula Award}}s for Best Novel.

!!Works by Frederik Pohl with their own trope pages include: