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Gateway (Heechee Saga)
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This classic book is divvied up into two equally satisfying spheres. First we have the sessions between Robin and his computer shrink Sigmund. While writing psychology in sci-fi isn't new, this takes the mundane is a whole new plane. Not only is it insightful to characterization, but it also helps us understand the world Robin lives in and how he relat... »
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Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (Heechee Saga, Book 2)
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Gateway (Heechee Book 1) was a triumph in originality and depth. But it's such a sad fact for me that this sequel spoils the very name "Heechee" and everything I found exciting about the beginning of the series.
I don't know how Pohl could go from such an insightful book like Gateway, where he explored both psychology and space, to a book ... »
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CHERNOBYL: A NOVEL (Bantam Spectra Book)
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A totally gripping book. Written a very short time after the Chernobyl accident, this novel is a wonderful story about the people of that doomed town. I loved the way Pohl, a great SF writer, mixes the engineering details with the human drama.The political stuff in the book has been overshadowed by the unrealness what *really* happened in Russia... »
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Heechee Rendezvous
Book three of the trilogy... or is it?
What was heralded as the "finale to the Heechee Saga" and yet which ends with the characters pondering all th... »
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The Space Merchants
Brilliantly written in the 1950s, "The Space Merchants" is a deeply cynical and darkly prescient dystopian novel in which advertising, conspicuous consump... »
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The Other End of Time (Eschaton)
A distinguished veteran of science fiction, Frederik Pohl, was one of the Futurians, a New York City club of the 1930s and 40s that included Isaac Asimov.... »
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The Merchant's War
In this book, Frederik Pohl takes us back to his dystopian future, where unrestrained growth has ruined the Earth, and produced a two-tiered world with an... »
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