Frederik pohl iv (32 resultados)

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Hardback. Condición: Good. Crisp, Steve (ilustrador).

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Hardback. Condición: Good. 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 in Platinum Pohl. 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.…

Hardback. Condición: Good.

Hard cover. Book Club Edition. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. Audience: General/trade. clean and tight, jacket has very light wear. Very good in very good dust jacket.

paperback. Condición: Good. Crease on cover* Writing on first page*.

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. Two thousand years after Pompeii's destruction, a thriller of upheaval-volcanic and political-as only SF Grandmaster Frederik Pohl can write it With a keen eye for the humanity in any situation, science fiction icon Frederik Pohl has crafted a compelling new novel of a not-too-distant future we can only hope is merely science fiction. When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. it gave so little warning that Pompeiians were caught unawares, and many bodies were preserved in volcanic ash. Two thousand years later, in 2079, Pompeii is a popular theme park eagerly anticipating Il Giubeleo, the Jubilee celebration of the great anniversary. But Vesuvius is still capable of erupting, and even more threatening are terrorists who want to use the occasion to draw attention to their cause by creating a huge disaster. As the fateful day draws near, people from all over the world-workers, tourists, terrorists-caught in the shadow of the volcano will grapple with upheaval both natural and political.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Chernobyl: The very name conjures the catastrophe that the world feared could happen someday at a nuclear power plant. On April 26, 1986, a power surge caused the core of one of the reactors to explode, spewing a cloud of radioactive steam into the air. More than four thousand people died, as many as a half-million suffered potentially cancer-causing exposure, and the city around the plant became a toxic wasteland in which nothing could live. Before the disaster at the Chernobyl plant, nuclear catastrophe had been only a fear, a threat. But when the Chernobyl plant was destroyed, those fears were suddenly all too real. Frederik Pohl's novel about this disaster was written months after the tragic events. He had the cooperation of many people inside the USSR with access to technical information and first-person accounts of the events of what is still the most tragic nuclear event in human history and only one of two level-7 nuclear accidents, along with the Fukushima disaster of 2011. This is fiction, but it is the most riveting, realistic account of what happened that has ever been written. It is also a cautionary tale that reminds us of the dangers of nuclear power plants and the terrible devastation they can unleash. Including a new Afterword by the author, this is an important book.…

Hard cover. Condición: Very good in good dust jacket. Book Club Edition. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 240 p. Audience: General/trade. book is clean and tight, the jacket has some edge wear.

Mass-market paperback. Condición: Very good. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. clean and tight, light edge wear, no markings.

Softcover. Condición: Very Good-. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket As Issued. First Edition. A solidly bound trade paperback. Shows signs of being previously read including 1 or more of the following: creased spine, dog ears, creases to cover, edge & corner wear, light staining or discoloration, fading or discolored page edges.…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Lightly soiled on the edges of the page block.

Condición: Good. Good condition. (science fiction films, history and criticism ) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hard cover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 311 p. Heechee Saga, 3. Audience: General/trade. Book is crisp, clean and tight, jacket has some light shelf wear, book club edition. Very good in very good dust jacket.

Hard cover. Audience: General/trade. Jacket painting: Barclay Shaw. Clean, tight unmarked copy. Very good in very good dust jacket.

Condición: New.

Condición: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condición: New.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white movie-stills. The Contents are: Introduction: Sci-Fi and SF, Exploring the Bright Continent; Introduction: Catching Up; From Melies to Metropolis: The Silents; Imagining Things: The Thirties; The Fearful and Fecund Fifties; Dr. Kubrick's Clockwork Odyssey; Reeling Around the World; Tooling Up for the Big Bang; Hyperspace, Hyper-Grosses, Hype; and Toward a More Nearly Perfect Science Fiction Film; followed by Appendix: Effex in Esseff. Book.…

Condición: New.

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Soft cover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. Large format paperback. No inscriptions. Light rubbing to edge and corner crease, otherwise very very good. Book.

Condición: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.