List of works by Frederik Pohl
This is a complete list of works by American space opera and science fiction author Frederik Pohl, including co-authored works.
Works
Series
Heechee
- Gateway —winner of the Campbell Memorial, Hugo, Locus SF, and Nebula Awards as the year's Best Novel
- Beyond the Blue Event Horizon —second place, Locus SF Award, and finalist for the British SF, Hugo, and Nebula Awards
- Heechee Rendezvous —third place, Locus SF Award
- The Annals of the Heechee
- The Gateway Trip: Tales and Vignettes of the Heechee,
- The Boy Who Would Live Forever: A Novel of Gateway, nominated for the Campbell Memorial Award
Eschaton trilogy
- The Other End of Time
- The Siege of Eternity
- The Far Shore of Time
Mars
- Man Plus —winner of the Nebula Award; Campbell Memorial runner up, Locus SF third place, and Hugo finalist
- Mars Plus also listed under collaborations
Space Merchants
- The Merchants' War
- The two novels were published together as: Venus, Inc.
Other novels (not parts of series)
- Slave Ship
- Edge of the City, novelization of the screenplay by Robert Alan Aurthur, Ballantine paperback
- Drunkard's Walk
- A Plague of Pythons
- The Age of the Pussyfoot
- Jem winner of the National Book Award; finalist for the Hugo and Nebula Awards, sixth place for the Locus Award
- The Cool War
- Syzygy
- Starburst
- The Years of the City – 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
- * "The Greening of Bed-Stuy" 1984
- * "The Blister" 1984
- * "Second-Hand Sky" 1984
- * "Gwenanda and the Supremes" 1984
- Black Star Rising
- The Coming of the Quantum Cats
- Terror
- Chernobyl
- The Day The Martians Came
- Narabedla Ltd.
- Homegoing
- The World at the End of Time
- Outnumbering the Dead
- Stopping at Slowyear
- Mining the Oort
- The Voices of Heaven
- O Pioneer!
- All the Lives He Led
Collaborations
with Isaac Asimov
- "The Little Man on the Subway"
- "Legal Rites"
with Cyril M. Kornbluth
- The Space Merchants
- Search the Sky
- Gladiator-At-Law
- Presidential Year
- A Town Is Drowning
- Sorority House as by 'Jordan Park', a lesbian pulp novel
- Wolfbane
with [Jack Williamson]
- Undersea Trilogy
- Undersea Quest
- Undersea Fleet
- Undersea City
- Starchild Trilogy
- The Reefs of Space
- Starchild
- Rogue Star
- Saga of Cuckoo
- Farthest Star
- Wall Around a Star
- Land's End
- The Singers of Time
with Lester Del Rey
- Preferred Risk under the joint pseudonym Edson McCann
with Thomas T. Thomas
- Mars Plus sequel to Man Plus
with Arthur C. Clarke
- The Last Theorem
Collections
- Alternating Currents
- * "Happy Birthday, Dear Jesus"
- * "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 ", 1956
- The Case Against Tomorrow
- * "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
- * "The Haunted Corpse", 1957
- * "The Middle of Nowhere", 1955
- * "The Gentle Venusian ", 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
- * "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
- * "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
- * "The Hated", 1958
- * "I Plinglot, Who You?", 1959
- The Wonder Effect
- * "Introduction"
- * "Critical Mass", 1962
- * "A Gentle Dying", 1961
- * "Nightmare with Zeppelins", 1958
- * "Best Friend ", 1941
- * "The World of Myrion Flowers", 1961
- * "Trouble in Time ", 1940
- * "The Engineer", 1956
- * "Mars-Tube ", 1941
- * "The Quaker Cannon", 1961
- The Abominable Earthman,
- * "The Abominable Earthman", 1961
- * "We Never Mention Aunt Nora" , 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
- * "", 1964
- * "The Fiend", 1964
- * "", 1964
- * "Father of the Stars", 1964
- * "The Five Hells of Orion", 1962
- * "With Redfern on Capella XII", 1965
- * "How to Count on Your Fingers", 1956
- * "On Binary Digits and Human Habits", 1962
- The Frederik Pohl Omnibus
- * "The Man Who Ate the World",
- * "The Seven Deadly Virtues", 1958
- * "The Day the Icicle Works Closed", 1960
- * "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
- * "The Wizards of Pung's Corners ", 1958
- * "The Waging of the Peace ", 1959
- * "Survival Kit", 1957
- * "I Plinglot, Who You?", 1959
- Day Million
- * "Day Million", 1966
- * "The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass", 1962
- * "The Day the Martians Came" , 1967
- * "The Schematic Man", 1969
- * "Small Lords", 1957
- * "Making Love" , 1966
- * "Way Up Yonder", 1959
- * "Speed Trap", 1967
- * "It's a Young World", 1941
- * "Under Two Moons", 1965
- The Gold at the Starbow's End
- * "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
- The Best of Frederik Pohl
- * 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
- * "The Day the Icicle Works Closed", 1960
- * "The Hated", 1961
- * "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
- * "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
- * "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
- * "Some Joys Under the Star", 1973
- * "The Man Who Ate the World", 1956
- * "SF: The Game-Playing Literature", 1971
- The Early Pohl :
- * "Elegy for a Dead Planet: Luna", 1937,
- * "The Dweller in the Ice", 1940,
- * "The King's Eye", 1940,
- * "It's a Young World", 1940,
- * "Daughters of Eternity", 1940,
- * "Earth, Farewell!" 1940,
- * "Conspiracy on Callisto", 1943,
- * "Highwayman of the Void", 1943,
- * "Double-Cross", 1943,
- Critical Mass
- * "Introduction",
- * "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",
- Survival Kit
- * "The Seven Deadly Virtues", 1958
- * "The Knights of Arthur", 1958
- * "Mars by Moonlight", 1958
- * "", 1957
- * "The Middle of Nowhere", 1955
- * "The Day of the Boomer Dukes", 1956
- * "Survival Kit", 1957
- * "I Plinglot, Who You?", 1959
- Before the Universe
- * "Mars-Tube", 1941
- * "Trouble in Time", 1940
- * "Vacant World", 1940
- * "Best Friend", 1941
- * "Nova Midplane", 1940
- * "The Extrapolated Dimwit", 1942
- Planets Three, 1982 :
- * "Figurehead, " 1951
- * "Red Moon of Danger", 1951
- * "Donovan Had a Dream", 1947
- Midas World
- * "The Fire-Bringer",
- * "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
- * "The Sweet, Sad Queen of the Grazing Isles",
- * "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 ", original story 1958, retranslation 1984.
- Tales from the Planet Earth, 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, two novels in one volume:
- * Drunkard's Walk
- * The Age of the Pussyfoot
- * "Introduction",
- * "The Stories of the Sixties",
- * "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",
- * "Trouble in Time ", 1940
- * "Mars-Tube ", ss Astonishing Stories September '41
- * "Epilogue to The Space Merchants",
- * "Gravy Planet",
- * "The Final Stories",
- * "Mute Inglorious Tam", 1974
- * "The Gift of Garigolli", 1974
- * "The Meeting", 1972
- * "Afterword",
- Platinum Pohl
- * "Introduction",
- * "The Merchants of Venus", 1972
- * "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
- * "Let the Ants Try", 1949
- * "Speed Trap", 1967
- * "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
- Practical Politics 1972
- Nebula Winners Fourteen
- Science Fiction Studies in Film
- Our Angry Earth
- Chasing Science: Science as Spectator Sport
As editor of a compilation of SF short stories
- The Expert Dreamers
Autobiography
- The Way the Future Was