# Frederik Pohl bibliography

This is an incomplete list of works by American space opera and science fiction author Frederik Pohl, including co-authored works.

## Works
### Series
#### Heechee

* Gateway (1977)—winner of the Campbell Memorial, Hugo, Locus SF, and Nebula Awards as the year's Best Novel
* Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (1980)—second place, Locus SF Award, and finalist for the British SF, Hugo, and Nebula Awards
* Heechee Rendezvous (1984)—third place, Locus SF Award
* The Annals of the Heechee (1987)
* The Gateway Trip: Tales and Vignettes of the Heechee, (1990) (collection of short stories involving the Heechee, including the 1972 story "The Merchants of Venus", the first mention of the Heechee)
* The Boy Who Would Live Forever: A Novel of Gateway (2004), nominated for the Campbell Memorial Award

#### Eschaton trilogy

* The Other End of Time (1996)
* The Siege of Eternity (1997)
* The Far Shore of Time (1999)

#### Mars

* Man Plus (1976)—winner of the Nebula Award; Campbell Memorial runner up, Locus SF third place, and Hugo finalist
* Mars Plus (1994) also listed under collaborations

#### Space Merchants

* The Space Merchants (1953) also listed under collaborations
* The Merchants' War (1984)
* The two novels were published together as: Venus, Inc. (1985) (SFBC omnibus)

### Other novels (not parts of series)

* Slave Ship (1956) (Galaxy Magazine 1956, Ballantine 1956)
* Edge of the City (1957), novelization of the screenplay by Robert Alan Aurthur, Ballantine paperback
* Drunkard's Walk (1960) (Galaxy Magazine June-Aug 1960, Ballantine paperback 1960)
* A Plague of Pythons (1962) (Galaxy Magazine Oct-Dec 1962, Ballantine paperback 1965; updated version published in 1984 as Demon in the Skull)
* The Age of the Pussyfoot (1965) (Galaxy Magazine Oct. 1965-Feb. 1966, Trident hardcover 1969)
* Jem (1979) winner of the National Book Award; (With essay by Ron Hogan from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog) finalist for the Hugo and Nebula Awards, sixth place for the Locus Award
* The Cool War (1981)
* Syzygy (1981)
* Starburst (1982)
* The Years of the City (1984)—winner of the Campbell Memorial Award, sixth place Locus Collection. The Years of the City is a collection of five linked novellas, two previously published.
** "Introduction"
** "When New York Hit the Fan" 1984 (original here)
** "The Greening of Bed-Stuy" 1984
** "The Blister" 1984
** "Second-Hand Sky" 1984 (original here)
** "Gwenanda and the Supremes" 1984 (original here)
* Black Star Rising (1985)
* The Coming of the Quantum Cats (1986)
* Terror (1986)
* Chernobyl (1987)
* The Day The Martians Came (1988) (actually 7 previously published stories plus 3 new, plus connecting material)
* Narabedla Ltd. (1988)
* Homegoing (1989)
* The World at the End of Time (1990)
* Outnumbering the Dead (1990)
* Stopping at Slowyear (1991)
* Mining the Oort (1992)
* The Voices of Heaven (1994)
* O Pioneer! (1998)
* All the Lives He Led (2011)

### Collaborations
#### with Isaac Asimov

* "The Little Man on the Subway" (1950) (under the pseudonym James MacCreigh)
* "Legal Rites" (1950) (as James MacCreigh)

#### with Cyril M. Kornbluth

* The Space Merchants (1953) (a sole-author sequel, The Merchant's War, appeared in 1984)
* Search the Sky (1954) (heavily revised 1985)
* Gladiator-At-Law (1955) (revised 1986)
* Presidential Year (1956)
* A Town Is Drowning (1955)
* Sorority House (1956) as by 'Jordan Park', a lesbian pulp novel
* Wolfbane (1959)
-see also the short-story collections The Wonder Effect, Critical Mass, Before the Universe, and the selected stories Our Best: The Best of Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth (listed under collections)

#### with Jack Williamson

* Undersea Trilogy
* Undersea Quest (1954)
* Undersea Fleet (1956)
* Undersea City (1958)
* Starchild Trilogy
* The Reefs of Space (1964)
* Starchild (1965)
* Rogue Star (1969)
* Saga of Cuckoo
* Farthest Star (1975)
* Wall Around a Star (1983)
* Land's End (1988)
* The Singers of Time (1991)

#### with Lester Del Rey

* Preferred Risk (1955) under the joint pseudonym Edson McCann

#### with Thomas T. Thomas

* Mars Plus (1994) sequel to Man Plus

#### with Arthur C. Clarke

* The Last Theorem (2008)

### Collections

* Alternating Currents (1956)
** "Happy Birthday, Dear Jesus" (original here)
** "The Ghost Maker", 1954
** "Let the Ants Try", 1949
** "Pythias", 1955
** "The Mapmakers", 1955
** "Rafferty's Reasons", 1955
** "Target One", 1955
** "Grandy Devil", 1955
** "The Tunnel under the World", 1955
** "What to Do Until the Analyst Comes ["Everybody's Happy But Me!"]", 1956
* The Case Against Tomorrow (1957)
** "The Midas Plague", 1954
** "The Census Takers", 1956
** "The Candle Lighter", 1955
** "The Celebrated No-Hit Inning", 1956
** "Wapshot's Demon", 1956
** "My Lady Green Sleeves" 1957
* Tomorrow Times Seven (1959)
** "The Haunted Corpse", 1957
** "The Middle of Nowhere", 1955
** "The Gentle Venusian ["The Gentlest Unpeople"]", 1958
** "The Day of the Boomer Dukes", 1956
** "Survival Kit", 1957
** "The Knights of Arthur", 1958
** "To See Another Mountain", 1959
* The Man Who Ate the World (1960)
** "The Man Who Ate the World", 1956
** "The Wizards of Pung's Corners", 1959
** "The Waging of the Peace", 1959
** "The Snowmen", 1959
** "The Day the Icicle Works Closed", 1959
* Turn Left at Thursday (1961)
** "Mars by Moonlight", 1958
** "The Richest Man in Levittown"
** "The Bitterest Pill", 1959
** "The Seven Deadly Virtues", 1958
** "The Martian in the Attic", 1960
** "Third Offense", 1958 [orig as by Charles Satterfield]
** "The Hated", 1958
** "I Plinglot, Who You?", 1959
* The Wonder Effect (1962) (with Cyril M. Kornbluth)
** "Introduction"
** "Critical Mass", 1962
** "A Gentle Dying", 1961
** "Nightmare with Zeppelins", 1958
** "Best Friend [as by S. D. Gottesman]", 1941
** "The World of Myrion Flowers", 1961
** "Trouble in Time [as by S. D. Gottesman]", 1940
** "The Engineer", 1956
** "Mars-Tube [as by S. D. Gottesman]", 1941
** "The Quaker Cannon", 1961
* The Abominable Earthman, (1963)
** "The Abominable Earthman", 1961
** "We Never Mention Aunt Nora" [as by Paul Flehr], 1958
** "A Life and a Half", 1959
** "Punch", 1961
** "The Martian Star-Gazers", 1962
** "Whatever Counts", 1959
** "Three Portraits and a Prayer", 1962
* Digits and Dastards (1966)
** "The Children of Night", 1964
** "The Fiend", 1964
** "Earth Eighteen" (as Ernst Mason), 1964
** "Father of the Stars", 1964
** "The Five Hells of Orion", 1962
** "With Redfern on Capella XII", 1965 (writing as Charles Satterfield)
** "How to Count on Your Fingers", 1956
** "On Binary Digits and Human Habits", 1962
* The Frederik Pohl Omnibus (1966) [abridged as Survival Kit 1979]
** "The Man Who Ate the World", (not in Survival Kit)
** "The Seven Deadly Virtues", 1958
** "The Day the Icicle Works Closed", 1960 (not in Survival Kit)
** "The Knights of Arthur", 1958
** "Mars by Moonlight", 1958
** " The Haunted Corpse", 1957
** "The Middle of Nowhere", 1955
** "The Day of the Boomer Dukes", 1956
** "The Snowmen", 1959 (not in Survival Kit)
** "The Wizards of Pung's Corners [Jack Tighe series]", 1958 (not in Survival Kit)
** "The Waging of the Peace [Jack Tighe series]", 1959 (not in Survival Kit)
** "Survival Kit", 1957
** "I Plinglot, Who You?", 1959
* Day Million (1970)
** "Day Million", 1966
** "The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass", 1962
** "The Day the Martians Came" ["The Day After the Day the Martians Came"], 1967
** "The Schematic Man", 1969
** "Small Lords", 1957
** "Making Love" ["Lovemaking"], 1966
** "Way Up Yonder", [orig as by Charles Satterfield] 1959
** "Speed Trap", 1967
** "It's a Young World", 1941
** "Under Two Moons", 1965
* The Gold at the Starbow's End (1972)
** "The Gold at the Starbow's End", 1972
** "Sad Solarian Screenwriter Sam", 1972
** "Call Me Million", 1970
** "Shaffery among the Immortals", 1972
** "The Merchants of Venus", 1972 (in "Heechee" series)
* The Best of Frederik Pohl (1975)
** Introduction: "A Variety of Excellence", by Lester del Rey
** "The Tunnel Under the World", 1954
** "Punch", 1961
** "Three Portraits and a Prayer", 1962
** "Day Million", 1966
** "Happy Birthday, Dear Jesus", 1956
** "We Never Mention Aunt Nora", 1958
** "Father of the Stars", 1964
** "The Day the Martians Came", 1967
** "The Midas Plague", 1954
** "The Snowmen", 1959
** "How to Count on Your Fingers", 1956
** "Grandy Devil", 1955
** "Speed Trap", 1967
** "The Richest Man in Levittown", 1959 (orig. pub. as "The Bitterest Pill")
** "The Day the Icicle Works Closed", 1960
** "The Hated", 1958
** "The Martian in the Attic", 1960
** "The Census Takers", 1955
** "The Children of Night", 1964
** Afterword: "What the Author Has to Say About All This"
* In The Problem Pit (1976)
** "Introduction: Science-Fiction Games", 1974
** "In the Problem Pit", 1973
** "Let the Ants Try", 1949
** "To See Another Mountain", 1959
** "The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass", 1962 (a.k.a. The Time Machine of Phineas Snodgrass)
** "Golden Ages Gone Away", 1972
** "Rafferty's Reasons", 1955
** "I Remember a Winter", 1972
** "The Schematic Man", 1968
** "What to Do Until the Analyst Comes", 1955 (a.k.a. Everybody's Happy But Me!)
** "Some Joys Under the Star", 1973
** "The Man Who Ate the World", 1956
** "SF: The Game-Playing Literature", 1971 (a.k.a. The Game-Playing Literature)
* The Early Pohl (1976):
** "Elegy for a Dead Planet: Luna", 1937, (writing as Elton Andrews) [a poem, his first published piece]
** "The Dweller in the Ice", 1940, (writing as James MacCreigh)
** "The King's Eye", 1940, (writing as James MacCreigh)
** "It's a Young World", 1940, (writing as James MacCreigh)
** "Daughters of Eternity", 1940, (writing as James MacCreigh)
** "Earth, Farewell!" 1940, (writing as James MacCreigh)
** "Conspiracy on Callisto", 1943, (writing as James MacCreigh)
** "Highwayman of the Void", 1943, (writing under Dirk Wylie's name)
** "Double-Cross", 1943, (writing as James MacCreigh)
* Critical Mass (1977) (with Cyril M. Kornbluth)
** "Introduction", (Pohl)
** "The Quaker Cannon", 1961
** "Mute Inglorious Tam", 1974
** "The World of Myrion Flowers", 1961
** "The Gift of Garigolli", 1974
** "A Gentle Dying", 1961
** "A Hint of Henbane", 1961
** "The Meeting", 1972
** "The Engineer", 1956
** "Nightmare with Zeppelins", 1958
** "Critical Mass", 1962
** "Afterword", (Pohl)
* Survival Kit (1979) (abridged from The Frederik Pohl Omnibus 1966, see)
** "The Seven Deadly Virtues", 1958
** "The Knights of Arthur", 1958
** "Mars by Moonlight", 1958
** "The Haunted Corpse", 1957
** "The Middle of Nowhere", 1955
** "The Day of the Boomer Dukes", 1956
** "Survival Kit", 1957
** "I Plinglot, Who You?", 1959
* Before the Universe (1980) (with Cyril M. Kornbluth)
** "Mars-Tube", 1941
** "Trouble in Time", 1940
** "Vacant World", 1940
** "Best Friend", 1941
** "Nova Midplane", 1940
** "The Extrapolated Dimwit", 1942
* Planets Three, 1982 (a collection of 3 novellas written as James MacCreigh):
** "Figurehead, " 1951 (orig as "The Genius Beasts" by MacCreigh)
** "Red Moon of Danger", 1951 (orig as "Danger Moon" by MacCreigh)
** "Donovan Had a Dream", 1947
* Midas World (1983)
** "The Fire-Bringer", (original here)
** "The Midas Plague", 1954
** "Servant of the People", 1983
** "The Man Who Ate the World", 1956
** "Farmer on the Dole", 1982
** "The Lord of the Skies", 1983
** "The New Neighbors", 1983
* Pohlstars (1984) [later Gollancz edition omits the last story]
** "The Sweet, Sad Queen of the Grazing Isles", [original here]
** "The High Test", 1983
** "Spending a Day at the Lottery Fair", 1983
** "Second Coming", 1983
** "Enjoy, Enjoy", 1974
** "Growing Up in Edge City", 1975
** "We Purchased People", 1974
** "Rem the Rememberer", 1974
** "The Mother Trip", 1975
** "A Day in the Life of Able Charlie", 1976
** "The Way It Was", 1977
** "The Wizard-Masters of Peng-Shi Angle (né The Wizards of Pung's Corners)", original story 1958, retranslation 1984.
* Tales from the Planet Earth (1986), created with Elizabeth Anne Hull, a novel with nineteen authors
** "Sitting Around the Pool, Soaking Up the Rays" 1984
** "We Servants of the Stars" 1986
* BiPohl (1987), two novels in one volume:
** Drunkard's Walk
** The Age of the Pussyfoot
* Our Best: The Best of Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth (1987) (with Cyril M. Kornbluth)
** "Introduction", (Pohl)
** "The Stories of the Sixties", (Pohl, section introduction)
** "Critical Mass", 1962
** "The World of Myrion Flowers", 1961
** "The Engineer", 1956
** "A Gentle Dying", 1961
** "Nightmare with Zeppelins", 1958
** "The Quaker Cannon", 1961
** "The 60/40 Stories", (Pohl, section introduction)
** "Trouble in Time [as by S. D. Gottesman]", 1940
** "Mars-Tube [as by S. D. Gottesman]", ss Astonishing Stories September '41
** "Epilogue to The Space Merchants", (Pohl, section introduction)
** "Gravy Planet", (extract from the magazine serial, not used in the book)
** "The Final Stories", (Pohl, section introduction)
** "Mute Inglorious Tam", 1974
** "The Gift of Garigolli", 1974
** "The Meeting", 1972
** "Afterword", (Pohl)
* Platinum Pohl (2005)
** "Introduction", (by James Frenkel)
** "The Merchants of Venus", 1972 (in the "Heechee" series)
** "The Things That Happen", 1985
** "The High Test", 1983
** "My Lady Green Sleeves", 1957
** "The Kindly Isle", 1984
** "The Middle of Nowhere", 1955
** "I Remember a Winter", 1972
** "The Greening of Bed-Stuy", 1984
** "To See Another Mountain", 1959
** "The Mapmakers", 1955
** "Spending a Day at the Lottery Fair", 1983
** "The Celebrated No-Hit Inning", 1956
** "Some Joys Under the Star", 1973
** "Servant of the People", 1983
** "Waiting for the Olympians", 1988
** "Criticality", 1984
** "Shaffery Among the Immortals", 1972
** "The Day the Icicle Works Closed", 1960
** "Saucery", 1986
** "The Gold at the Starbow's End", 1972
** "Growing Up in Edge City", 1975
** "The Knights of Arthur", 1958
** "Creation Myths of the Recently Extinct", 1994
** "The Meeting", 1972 (with C. M. Kornbluth)
** "Let the Ants Try", 1949
** "Speed Trap", 1967
** "The Day the Martians Came" ("The Day After the Day the Martians Came"), 1967
** "Day Million", 1966
** "The Mayor of Mare Tranq", 1996
** "Fermi and Frost", 1985
** "Afterword: Fifty Years and Counting"

### Nonfiction

* Tiberius (1960) (writing as Ernst Mason)
* Practical Politics 1972 (1971)
* Nebula Winners Fourteen (editor) (1980)
* Science Fiction Studies in Film (1980) (with Frederik Pohl IV)
* Our Angry Earth (1991) (with Isaac Asimov)
* Chasing Science: Science as Spectator Sport (2000)

#### As editor of a compilation of SF short stories

* The Expert Dreamers (1962) (Introduction by Pohl; short stories by Morrison, Frisch, Gamow, Asimov, Walter, Willey, Latham, Davis, Hoyle, Ellanby, Norbert, Gregor, Correy, Smith, Szilard)

#### Autobiography

* The Way the Future Was (1978)