New Releases by Frederik Pohl

Frederik Pohl is the author of The Boy Who Would Live Forever (2005), The Annals of Heechee (2005), Homo plus (2000), The Other End of Time (1997), The Siege of Eternity (1997).

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The Boy Who Would Live Forever

release date: Nov 01, 2005
The Boy Who Would Live Forever
In 1977 Frederik Pohl stunned the science fiction world with the publication of Gateway, one of the most brilliantly entertaining SF novels of all time. More than twenty-five years later, Pohl completed a new novel set in the Gateway universe: The Boy Who Would Live Forever. The Boy Who Would Live Forever has a sense of wonder and excitement that will satisfy those who loved Gateway and will delight new readers as well. In Gateway, long after the alien Heechee abandoned their space-station, Gateway (as humans dubbed it) allowed humans to explore new worlds. The Heechee, alarmed by the alien Kugel whose goal was to destroy all organic lifeforms, had already retreated to the galactic core where they now lived in peace. Now, in The Boy Who Would Live Forever, humans with dreams of life among the stars are joining the Heechee at the core, to live there along with those humans and Heechee whose physical bodies have died and their minds stored in electronic memory so that their wisdom passes down through the ages. Their peace is threatened by the Kugel, who may yet attack the core. But a much greater threat is the human Wan Enrique Santos-Smith, whose blind loathing of the Heechee fuels an insane desire to destroy them and, incidentally, every living being in the galaxy. Stan and Estrella, two young people from Earth, went to Gateway looking for adventure, and found each other. They settle among the Heechee on Forested Planet of Warm Old Star Twenty-Four, never suspecting that they may be the last best hope to save the galaxy. But with allies like Gelle-Klara Moynlin--one of the galaxy''s richest women, who isn''t content to just have money, but wants to use her wealth for good, and machine mind Marc Antony-a wonderful chef to thousands of living and stored clients, they are destined to contend with Wan''s terrible plan. Frederik Pohl has woven together the lives of these and other memorable characters to create a masterful new novel. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Annals of Heechee

release date: Jan 01, 2005
The Annals of Heechee
Robinette Broadhead is now a computer-stored intelligence. Many others have joined him in this state and they find the normal humans to be impossibly slow and ponderous. A watch is being kept on the area of space from which the Assassins are known to originate. The Assassins purpose seems to be to wipe out intelligent life wherever they find it.

The Other End of Time

release date: Jul 15, 1997
The Other End of Time
A group of aliens known as the Beloved Leaders send a warning to Earth that the planet is about to be destroyed by a hostile race known as the Horch, but when Dan Dannerman, a spy for the U.S. government, is taken prisoner by the Beloveds, he learns that the supposed good guys are really the enemy.

The Siege of Eternity

release date: Jan 01, 1997
The Siege of Eternity
Thwarted in their initial incursion by secret agent Dan Dannerman, aliens armed with high-tech devices and a secret network on Earth and in space, set out to unleash an ever-changing arsenal to undermine Dannerman''s efforts to stave off all-out war, in the sequel to The Other End of Time.

The Voices of Heaven

release date: Jul 15, 1995
The Voices of Heaven
Barry di Hoa had the good life on the Moon: steady work and the love of a good woman. But a rival slipped him a mickey, and he next awoke aboard Gerald Tscharka''s ship as it neared the colony planet, Pava, eighteen light-years away. Pava was the frontier, complete with earthquakes, primitive conditions and hard physical work. The local "doctor" wouldn''t treat Barry''s little manic-depressive problem without medicine from the Moon. And the Millernarist colonists, who thought suicide was cool fun, didn''t thrill him. Then he made friends with the leps. The large, caterpillar-like, odd-speaking gentle beasts were helping the humans to fashion a life on their planet. In their strange way, they knew things about Pava that might make the difference in the colony''s survival. He started to believe he could really enjoy life in this fragile paradise. Except Tscharka was up to soemthing bad, something that would change eveyrthing. Barry knew only he could stop the mad captian, and the captain knew it, too. What neither knew was whether Barry could be manic enough to do it.

Mining the Oort

release date: Jan 01, 1992

The World at the End of Time

release date: Jan 01, 1991
The World at the End of Time
Wan-To was the oldest and must powerful intelligence in the universe, a being who played with star systems as a child plays with marbles. Matter occupied so tiny a part of his vast awareness that humans were utterly beneath his notice. The colonists of Newmanhome first suffered the effects of Wan-To''s games when their planet''s stars began to shift, the climate began to cool down, and the colony was forced into a desperate struggle to survive. Viktor Sorricaine was determined to discover what force had suddenly sent his world hurtling toward the ends of the universe. And the answer was something beyond the scope of his imagination -- even if he lived for 4000 years...

The Singers of Time

release date: Jan 01, 1991
The Singers of Time
Earth has been immeasurably changed by the arrival of a superior alien race. Dubbed "Turtles" by humans, they have conquered Earth without a fight. Who in his right mind would oppose the bringers of peace and plenty of trade goods?

Outnumbering the Dead

release date: Jan 01, 1990
Outnumbering the Dead
The tale of an actor, Rafiel, who is living on a far-future Earth, one where a simple organization in childhood brings immortality for all. Except a handful of people who prove immune and who live their lives as mortals in an immortal society.

Narabedla Ltd

release date: Jan 01, 1990

The Day The Martians Came

release date: Nov 15, 1989
The Day The Martians Came
Henry Steegman is hardly "Mr. Personality" aboard the Mars-bound Algonquin 9. Yet it is he who bungles upon the spectacular Macy''s-like city beneath the Red Planet''s crust. For better or worse, the name Steegman will be immortalized by a discovery that will transform millions of lives. For a struggling screenwriter, the Martian beings could mean a big story, big bucks, headlines...and more women than any many his size has ever known... For an exhiled Russian rocket man, the are a possible route to America''s space program, and the land of opportunity... For a flying-saucer faker of flickering fame, the possibilities are out of this world. In a brilliant near-future look at the human condition, Frederick Pohl has honed his satire-sharp science fiction to a steely new edge.

The Annals of the Heechee

release date: Jan 01, 1987
The Annals of the Heechee
Humans & Heechee rally their forces to defend against an alien racethat has never met defeat--the Foe. Science fiction.

Coming of the Quantum Cats

release date: Apr 01, 1986

Heechee Rendezvous

release date: Jan 01, 1985

Black Star Rising

release date: Jan 01, 1985

The Years of the City

The Years of the City
A novel which gives the vision of the future of New York City.

Starburst

Starburst
All does not go as planned when four couples, all extremely intelligent and beautiful, are sent to Alpha Centauri.

The Starchild Trilogy

The Starchild Trilogy
The mysterious being, Starchild, threatens to extinguish the Earth''s sun and destroy its ruler, the Plan of Man.

Slave Ship

Slave Ship
The electronic brain machines have broken codes, translated one human language into another, and deciphered animal languages.
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