{"product_id":"platinum-pohl-the-collected-best-stories-9780312875275","title":"Platinum Pohl: The Collected Best Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrederik 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. 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 youll love  some youll 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. Thats some trick. Not everyone can do that . . . but thats 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 Starbows 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!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647890808885,"sku":"ByrdShop_0312875274","price":20.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780312875275.jpg?v=1781699136","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/platinum-pohl-the-collected-best-stories-9780312875275","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}