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 / Gravy Planet | (1952) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Merchants' War | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Starchild Books
(with Jack Williamson)
| The Reefs of Space | (1963) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Starchild | (1965) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Rogue Star | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Saga Of Cuckoo Books
(with Jack Williamson)
| Farthest Star | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Wall Around a Star | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Heechee Saga Books
| Gateway | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Beyond the Blue Event Horizon | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Heechee Rendezvous | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Annals of the Heechee | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Boy Who Would Live Forever | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Heechee Collections
| The Gateway Trip | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Eschaton Sequence Books
| The Other End of Time | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Siege of Eternity | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Far Shore of Time | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Man Plus Books
| Man Plus | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Mars Plus | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Star Science Fiction Books
(with Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, Jack Vance, Chad Oliver, Richard Matheson, Philip K. Dick, Lester del Rey, Jack Williamson)
| Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2 | (1953) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| The Tunnel Under the World | (1955) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Hated | (1958) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Knights of Arthur | (1958) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fermi and Frost | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Day of the Boomer Dukes | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Midas Plague | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Publication Order of Graphic Novels
| The Merchants of Venus | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Prince Henry Sinclair | (1951) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Practical Politics 1972 | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Viking settlements of North America | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Way the Future Was | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Chasing Science | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Science Fiction Studies in Film | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The New Visions | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Galaxy Magazine: The Dark and the Light Years | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Our Angry Earth | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of C.M. Kornbluth Collections
(with C.M. Kornbluth)
| The Mindworm | (1955) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Mile Beyond the Moon | (1958) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Marching Morons | (1959) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Wonder Effect | (1962) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Explorers. | (1963) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Thirteen O'clock And Other Zero Hours | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best of C. M. Kornbluth | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Critical Mass | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Before the Universe | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Our Best | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| His Share of Glory | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Cosmic Expense Account | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Eight Worlds of C.M. Kornbluth | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Best Science Fiction of the Year Books
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year 1 | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year 2 | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year 3 | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year 4 | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year 5 | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year 6 | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year 7 | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year 8 | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year 9 | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year 10 | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year 11 | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12 | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Best Science Fiction of the Year 13 | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Best Science Fiction of the Year 14 | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Best Science Fiction of the Year 15 | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year 16 | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Undersea Eden Books
(with Jack Williamson)
| Undersea Quest | (1954) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Undersea Fleet | (1956) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Undersea City | (1958) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy Books
| Culture, Identities and Technology in the Star Wars Films | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tolkien and Shakespeare | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hugo Gernsback and the Century of Science Fiction | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Influence of Star Trek on Television, Film and Culture | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Evolution of Tolkien's Mythology | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dreams and Nightmares | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| H. Beam Piper | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Science Fiction and the Two Cultures | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Stephen R. Donaldson and the Modern Epic Vision | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Science of Fiction and the Fiction of Science | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Inter-Galactic Playground | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Portals of Power | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Illuminating Torchwood | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Comics as a Nexus of Cultures | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Animal Fable in Science Fiction and Fantasy | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Twilight Mystique | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Anticipation Novelists of 1950s French Science Fiction | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Science Fiction and the Prediction of the Future | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Apocalypse in Australian Fiction and Film | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mythic Fantasy of Robert Holdstock | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| British Science Fiction Film and Television | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Postnational Fantasy | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Cult Telefantasy Series | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Heinlein's Juvenile Novels | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Welsh Mythology and Folklore in Popular Culture | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Of Bread, Blood and the Hunger Games | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Sex Is Out of This World | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| I See You | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Orbiting Ray Bradbury's Mars | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Girls Transforming | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Worlds of Farscape | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Lois McMaster Bujold | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Doctor Who in Time and Space | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Past That Might Have Been, the Future That May Come | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Heritage of Heinlein | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Nature and the Numinous in Mythopoeic Fantasy Literature | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Environments in Science Fiction | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Discworld and the Disciplines | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert E. Howard and the Birth of Modern Fantasy | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Monomyth in American Science Fiction Films | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Fantastic in Holocaust Literature and Film | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Michael Moorcock | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Star Wars in the Public Square | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| An Asimov Companion | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Science Fiction Mythmakers | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Last Midnight | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Gender and the Quest in British Science Fiction Television | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Saving the World Through Science Fiction | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Science Fiction and Futurism | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Wells Meets Deleuze | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Patricia A. McKillip and the Art of Fantasy World-Building | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Science Fiction in Classic Rock | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Dune Companion | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Fabulous Journeys of Alice and Pinocchio | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fantasy Literature and Christianity | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Archive Incarnate | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The British Comic Book Invasion | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hailing frequencies open: Communication in Star Trek | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Women's Space | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Global Vampire | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Philip K. Dick: Essays of the Here and Now | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Caitlín R. Kiernan: A Critical Study of Her Dark Fiction | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Fortean Influence on Science Fiction | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Michael Bishop and the Persistence of Wonder | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| In Frankenstein's Wake | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Truths of Monsters | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mythopoeic Code of Tolkien | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| English Magic and Imperial Madness | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Speculative Modernism | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Arab and Muslim Science Fiction | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Self and Community in Star Trek | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Magic Words, Magic Worlds | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Science, Technology and Magic in the Witcher | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Nnedi Okorafor | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Analyzing Adventure Time | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of The Space Merchants Books
(with C.M. Kornbluth)
| The Space Merchants / Gravy Planet | (1952) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Isaac Asimov's Anthology Books
| Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Fantasy! | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Fantasy! | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Aliens | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Robots | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's War | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Ghosts | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Christmas | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Camelot | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Detectives | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Werewolves | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Solar System | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Utopias | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Father Day | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Halloween | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Star Science Fiction Stories No. 1 | (1953) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2 | (1953) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Star Science Fiction Stories No. 6 | (1953) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Star Science Fiction Stories 3 | (1955) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Star Science Fiction Stories No. 4 | (1958) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Galaxy Science Fiction, December 1963 | (1963) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Connoisseur's Science Fiction | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| New Writings In SF-3 | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Eighth Galaxy Reader | (1965) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Science Fiction Oddities | (1966) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dangerous Visions | (1967) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Backdrop of Stars | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Worlds of If, February 1969 | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 3 | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Orbit 11 | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Alpha 3 | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Star Science Fiction Stories No. 5 | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 20th Series | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Wondermakers 2 | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Science Fiction Today and Tomorrow: A Discursive Symposium | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 22nd Series | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Late Great Future | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Science Fiction Discoveries | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Algol The Magazine About Science Fiction - Winter 1977 / 1978 | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Perilous Planets | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Galaxy Science Fiction, September-October 1979 | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12 | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tales from the Planet Earth | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 1987 | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Monster Book of Monsters | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Mississippi Review 47 / 48 | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 1988 | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Murasaki | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Inside the Funhouse | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Invaders! | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Omni Visions Two | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Necronomicon | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Far Horizons | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bangs & Whimpers | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The SFWA Grand Masters 1 | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Armageddons | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Furthest Horizon | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| American Body in Context | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The SFWA Grand Masters 3 | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| DAW 30th Anniversary Science Fiction | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| DAW 30th Anniversary Science Fiction and Fantasy Anthologies | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Hard SF Renaissance | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best of the Best, Vol 2 | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, February 1955 | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Arc 1.2: Post Human Conditions | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Ninth Science Fiction Megapack | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Lieu: Science Fiction Short Stories | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
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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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Future Quartet is not a collection. Since there are other authors published in the work, it is an anthology.
You’re right, but I started out putting them all under “collections,” and so as far as this site goes, “anthologies” are limited to the ones the author edited.