Order of Frederik Pohl Books

Frederik Pohl is an American author of science fiction whose work has spanned over 70 years. In 1993, he was named a Nebula Grand Master and was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 1998. He started out editing pulp magazines, writing stories for them that would appear under pen names. Frederick would frequently collaborate with Cyril M. Kornbluth, Jack Williamson, Dirk Wylie and Robert A.W. Lownes. Pohl also acquired and edited novels for Bantam Books in the 1970s. Frederik lives in the Chicagoland area.

Pohl’s first published work was the 1937 short story Elegy to a Dead Planet: Luna. His first novels were published in 1954 – Undersea Quest and Search the Sky. He has remained active throughout all of these decades, up to the 2011 novel All the Lives He Led. Below is a list of Frederik Pohl’s published works in order of when they were originally published:

Publication Order of Space Merchants Books

The Space Merchants	(1952)
The Merchants' War	(1981)

Publication Order of Starchild Books

(with Jack Williamson)

The Reefs of Space	(1963)
Starchild	(1965)
Rogue Star	(1969)

Publication Order of Saga Of Cuckoo Books

(with Jack Williamson)

Farthest Star	(1975)
Wall Around a Star	(1983)

Publication Order of Heechee Saga Books

Gateway	(1977)
Beyond the Blue Event Horizon	(1980)
Heechee Rendezvous	(1984)
The Annals of the Heechee	(1987)
The Boy Who Would Live Forever	(1990)

Publication Order of Heechee Collections

The Gateway Trip (By:Frank Kelly Freas)

(1990)

Publication Order of Eschaton Sequence Books

The Other End of Time	(1996)
The Siege of Eternity	(1997)
The Far Shore of Time	(1999)
The Eschaton Sequence	(1999)

Publication Order of Man Plus Books

Man Plus	(1976)
Mars Plus (By:Thomas T. Thomas)	(1994)

Publication Order of Star Science Fiction Books

Star Science Fiction Stories No. 1	(1953)
Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2	(1953)

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Search the Sky	(1954)
Preferred Risk	(1955)
Gladiator-at-Law	(1955)
Presidential Year	(1956)
Slave Ship	(1957)
Wolfbane	(1957)
Drunkard's Walk	(1960)
A Plague of Pythons	(1965)
The Age of the Pussyfoot	(1969)
Jem	(1979)
The Cool War	(1981)
Starburst	(1982)
Syzygy	(1982)
The Years Of The City	(1984)
Demon in the Skull	(1984)
Black Star Rising	(1985)
The Coming of the Quantum Cats	(1986)
Terror	(1986)
Chernobyl	(1987)
Narabedla Ltd.	(1988)
Land's End	(1988)
The Day The Martians Came	(1988)
Homegoing	(1989)
The World at the End of Time	(1990)
Outnumbering the Dead	(1990)
The Singers of Time	(1991)
Mining the Oort	(1992)
Stopping at Slowyear	(1992)
The Voices of Heaven	(1994)
O Pioneer!	(1997)
The Last Theorem	(2008)
All the Lives He Led	(2011)
Virtual Nightmare	(2017)

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

The Tunnel Under the World	(1955)
Tunnel Under The World	(1955)
The Hated	(1958)
The Knights of Arthur	(1958)
Mammoth Books presents Fermi and Frost	(1985)
The Day of the Boomer Dukes	(2011)
Midas Plague	(2020)

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Alternating Currents	(1956)
The Case against Tomorrow	(1956)
Tomorrow Times Seven	(1959)
The Man Who Ate the World	(1960)
The Wonder Effect	(1962)
The Abominable Earthman	(1963)
Digits and Dastards	(1966)
Turn Left at Thursday	(1969)
Day Million	(1970)
The Gold at the Starbow's End	(1972)
The Best of Frederik Pohl	(1975)
In the Problem Pit	(1976)
The Early Pohl	(1976)
In the Problem Pit and Other Stories	(1976)
Survival Kit	(1979)
Planets Three	(1982)
BIPOHL	(1982)
Midas World	(1983)
Pohlstars	(1984)
Platinum Pohl	(2000)
The Hated and Other Stories	(2010)
Works of Frederik Pohl[Illustrated]	(2010)
Lest Darkness Fall & Related Stories (With: S.M. Stirling,L. Sprague de Camp,David Drake)	(2011)
The Works of Frederik Pohl	(2012)
Adventures in Time and Space	(2015)

Publication Order of Graphic Novels

The Merchants of Venus

(1986)

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Prince Henry Sinclair	(1951)
Practical Politics 1972	(1971)
The Viking settlements of North America	(1972)
The Way the Future Was	(1978)
Chasing Science	(1980)
Science Fiction	(1981)
The New Visions	(1982)
Our Angry Earth	(1991)

Publication Order of Undersea Eden Books

(with Jack Williamson)

Undersea Quest	(1954)
Undersea Fleet	(1956)
Undersea City	(1958)

Publication Order of SF Authors Choice Books

SF Authors' Choice 2 (By:Harry Harrison)	(1970)
SF Authors' Choice 3 (By:Harry Harrison)	(1973)

Publication Order of The Year's Best Science Fiction Books

(with Connie Willis, Kim Stanley Robinson, George R.R. Martin, Mark Richard Zubro, Orson Scott Card, William Gibson, Michael Swanwick, Robert Silverberg, , John Kessel, , Brian W. Aldiss, Pat Cadigan, Gardner R. Dozois, , , Walter Jon Williams, Lewis Shiner, Mike Resnick, Lucius Shepard, Dan Simmons, Jonathan Lethem, Stephen Baxter, Gene Wolfe, , , , , , , Gregory Benford, , , , , Nancy Kress, Greg Egan, , Bruce Sterling, Joe Haldeman, Damien Broderick, , , , , John Crowley, Paul Park, , , James P. Blaylock, , , Cherry Wilder)

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection (With: Kim Stanley Robinson,George R.R. Martin,Orson Scott Card,William Gibson,Michael Swanwick,Robert Silverberg,,,Gardner R. Dozois,,Walter Jon Williams,Lewis Shiner,Lucius Shepard,,Nancy Kress,Bruce Sterling,Joe Haldeman,John Crowley,James P. Blaylock)	(1986)
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection (By:Connie Willis,Mark Richard Zubro,Brian W. Aldiss,Pat Cadigan,Gardner R. Dozois,Walter Jon Williams,Mike Resnick,Dan Simmons,Stephen Baxter,,,,,,,Nancy Kress,Greg Egan,,Bruce Sterling,Joe Haldeman)	(1994)
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection (By:Michael Swanwick,Robert Silverberg,John Kessel,Gardner R. Dozois,,Walter Jon Williams,Mike Resnick,Jonathan Lethem,Stephen Baxter,Gene Wolfe,,,,,Gregory Benford,,Nancy Kress,Bruce Sterling,Damien Broderick,,,,Paul Park,,James P. Blaylock,,Cherry Wilder)	(1997)

Publication Order of Anthologies

Dangerous Visions	(1967)
Backdrop of Stars	(1968)
Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader	(1973)
Wondermakers 2	(1974)
Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology	(1974)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12	(1983)
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection	(1986)
Tales from the Planet Earth	(1986)
The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories	(1992)
Murasaki	(1992)
The Furthest Horizon	(2000)
Lest Darkness Fall & Related Stories	(2011)
The Ninth Science Fiction Megapack	(2014)

If You Like Frederik Pohl Books, You’ll Love…

• Robert A. Heinlein
• Arthur C. Clarke
• Larry Niven

Notes: The Space Merchants, Search the Sky, Gladiator-at-Law, Presidential Year, Wolfbane, The Wonder Effect, Before the Universe and Our Best were co-authored with C.M. Kornbluth. Mars Plus was co-authored with Thomas T. Thomas. The Last Theroem was co-authored with Arthur C. Clarke. The Future Quartet also contains contributions by Ben Bova, Jerry Pournelle and Charles Sheffield. Lest Darkness Fall & Related Stories also contains contributions from L. Sprague de Camp, David Drake and S.M. Stirling. Our Angry Earth was co-authored by Isaac Asimov.

The series Undersea Eden, Starchild and Saga of Cuckoo, plus the novels Land’s End and The Singers of Time were co-authored by Jack Williamson. Tales from Planet Earth was co-authored by Lino Aldani, Brian Aldiss, Karl-Michael Armer, Jon Bing, Andre Carneiro, A. Bertram Chandler, Ljuben Dilov, Tong Enzheng, Carlos Maria Federici, Harry Harrison, Elizabeth Anne Hull, Sam J. Lundwall, Josef Nesvadba, Spider Robinson, Tetsu Yano, Ye Yonglie and Janusz A. Zajdel.

A Plague of Pythons was also published under the title Demon in the Skull. Preferred Risk was originally published using the pen name Edson McCann.

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