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Frederik Pohl, the bestselling author of The Boy Who Would Live Forever, is famous for his novels, but first and foremost, he is a master of the science fiction short story. For more than fifty years he has been writing incisive, entertaining SF stories, several hundred in all. Even while writing his bestselling triple-crown (Hugo, Nebula, Campbell Award) novel Gateway and the other Heechee Saga novels, he has always written short fiction.

Now, for the first time, he has gathered together the best of his many stories. Spanning the decades, these tales are in their way a living history of science fiction. Because Frederik Pohl has been on the frontlines of the field since the halcyon days of the late 1930s, and has written short stories in every decade since. And because he has always been a keen observer of the human condition and the world that is shaped by it, his stories reflect the currents of political movements, social trends, major events that have shaken the world...

Yet at their core, all his stories are most acutely concerned with people. All sorts of people. Some are people you'll love, some you'll hate. But you will need to find out what happens to the people who inhabit these stories. Because Frederik Pohl imbues his characters with a depth and individuality that makes them as real as people you see every day. Of course, he also employs a mind-boggling variety of scientific ideas and science fictional tropes with which his characters must interact. And he does it all with seemingly no effort at all. That's some trick. Not everyone can do that... but that's why he was named a Grand Master of Science Fiction by his peers in the Science Fiction Writers of America.

Here are his two Hugo Award winning stories, "Fermi and Frost" and "The Meeting" (with C. M. Kornbluth), along with such classic novellas as the powerful "The Gold at the Starbow's End" and "The Greening of Bed-Stuy," and stories such as "Servant of the People," "Shaffery Among the Immortals," and "Growing Up in Edge City," all finalists for major awards. And dozens of other wonderful tales, like "The Mayor of Mare Tranq" and the provocative "The Day the Martians Landed" and many others.

Altogether, a grand collection of thought-provoking, entertaining science fiction by one of the all-time greats!

Table of Contents:

• Introduction by James Frenkel
• "The Merchants of Venus", Worlds of If, July/August 1972
• "The Things That Happen", Asimov's, October 1985
• "The High Test", Asimov's, June 1983
• "My Lady Green Sleeves", Galaxy, February 1957
• "The Kindly Isle", Asimov's, November 1984
• "The Middle of Nowhere", Galaxy, May 1955
• "I Remember a Winter", Orbit 11, Damon Knight (ed.), 1972
• "The Greening of Bed-Stuy", F&SF, July 1984.
• "To See Another Mountain", F&SF, April 1959
• "The Mapmakers", Galaxy, July 1955
• "Spending a Day at the Lottery Fair", F&SF, October 1983
• "The Celebrated No-Hit Inning", Fantastic Universe, September 1956
• "Some Joys Under the Star", Galaxy, November 1973
• "Servant of the People", Analog, February 1983
• "Waiting for the Olympians", Asimov's, August 1988
• "Criticality", Analog, December 1984
• "Shaffery Among the Immortals", F&SF, July 1972
• "The Day the Icicle Works Closed", Galaxy, February 1960
• "Saucery", F&SF, October 1986
• "The Gold at the Starbow's End", Analog, March 1972
• "Growing Up in Edge City", Epoch, Roger Elwood and Robert Silverberg (eds.), 1975
• "The Knights of Arthur", Galaxy, January 1958
• "Creation Myths of the Recently Extinct", Analog, January 1994
• "The Meeting" (in collaboration with C.M. Kornbluth), F&SF, November 1972
• "Let the Ants Try", (as by James MacCreigh) Planet Stories, Winter 1949
• "Speed Trap", Playboy, November 1967
• "The Day the Martians Came", Dangerous Visions, Harlan Ellison (ed.), 1967
• "Day Million", Rogue, February/March 1966
• "The Mayor of Mare Tranq", The Williamson Effect, Tor, 1996
• "Fermi and Frost", Asimov's, January 1985
• Afterword : Fifty Years and Counting

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