Editing Frederik Pohl (section)

===Novelist===
Though he retired his pen names "Gottesman", "Lavond", and "MacCreigh" by the early 1950s, Pohl still occasionally used pseudonyms, even after he began to publish work under his real name. These occasional pseudonyms, all of which date from the early 1950s to the early 1960s, included Charles Satterfield, Paul Flehr, Ernst Mason, Jordan Park (two collaborative novels with Kornbluth), and Edson McCann (one collaborative novel with [[Lester del Rey]]).

In the 1970s, Pohl re-emerged as a novel writer in his own right, with books such as ''[[Man Plus]]'' and the ''[[Heechee Saga]]'' series. He won back-to-back Nebula Awards with ''Man Plus'' in 1976 and ''[[Gateway (novel)|Gateway]]'', the first ''Heechee'' novel, in 1977. In 1978, ''Gateway'' swept the other two major novel honors, also winning the [[Hugo Award for Best Novel]] and [[John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel|John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the best science-fiction novel]]. Two of his stories have also earned him Hugo Awards: "The Meeting" (with Kornbluth) tied in 1973 and "[[Fermi and Frost]]" won in 1986. Another award-winning novel is ''Jem'' (1979), winner of the [[National Book Award]].

His works include not only science fiction, but also articles for ''[[Playboy]]'' and ''[[Family Circle]]'' magazines and nonfiction books. For a time, he was the official authority for ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'' on the subject of [[Tiberius|Emperor Tiberius]]. (He wrote a book on the subject of Tiberius, as "Ernst Mason".)<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 8, 2010 |title=Congratulations to Britannica Contributor and 2010 Hugo Award Winner Frederik Pohl {{!}} Britannica Blog |url=http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2010/09/congratulations-to-britannica-contributor-and-2010-hugo-award-winner-frederik-pohl/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100911110756/http://www.britannica.com:80/blogs/2010/09/congratulations-to-britannica-contributor-and-2010-hugo-award-winner-frederik-pohl/ |archive-date=September 11, 2010 |access-date=November 18, 2024 |website=Britannica Blog}}</ref>

Some of his short stories take a satirical look at [[consumerism]] and advertising in the 1950s and 1960s: "The Wizards of Pung's Corners", where flashy, over-complex military hardware proved useless against farmers with shotguns, and "[[The Tunnel under the World]]", where an entire community of seeming-humans is held captive by advertising researchers. ("The Wizards of Pung's Corners" was freely translated into Chinese and then freely translated back into English as "The Wizard-Masters of Peng-Shi Angle" in the first edition of ''[[Pohlstars]]'' [1984]).

In his 1969 novel, "[[The Age of the Pussyfoot]]", Pohl speculated about a society where everyone could access knowledge and the means to communicate with others through a small handheld device similar to a smartphone.  Although he set the novel 500 years in the future, he noted in an afterword that it might be as few as fifty years away.  A short story "[[Day Million]]" suggested that society in the year 2737 might be as alien to us as contemporary society would be to someone from ancient times.

Pohl's Law is "Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere will not hate it".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.searchquotes.com/search/Pohls_Law/ |title=Pohls Law Quotes |publisher=Searchquotes.com |date=August 9, 2012 |access-date=September 8, 2012}}</ref>

He was a frequent guest on [[Long John Nebel]]'s radio show from the 1950s to the early 1970s, and an international lecturer.<ref>Pohl, Frederik. ''The Way the Future Was'' (New York: Ballantine Books, 1978), pp. 238-39, 269-70, 280.</ref>

Starting in 1995, when the [[Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award]] became a juried award, Pohl served first with [[James Gunn (author)|James Gunn]] and [[Judith Merril]], and since then with several others until retiring in 2013.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sturgeon Award |url=http://www.sfcenter.ku.edu/sturgeon.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121001134242/http://www.sfcenter.ku.edu/sturgeon.htm |archive-date=October 1, 2012 |access-date=May 29, 2023 }}</ref> Pohl was associated with Gunn since the 1940s, becoming involved in 1975 with what later became Gunn's Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas. There, he presented many talks, recorded a discussion about "The Ideas in Science Fiction" in 1973<ref>{{cite book |title=Literature of Science Fiction lecture |publisher=Literature of Science Fiction series |year=1973 |oclc=11611519}}</ref> for the Literature of Science Fiction Lecture Series,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sfcenter.ku.edu/lecture-series.htm |title=Literature of Science Fiction lecture |access-date=September 3, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731204918/http://www.sfcenter.ku.edu/lecture-series.htm |archive-date=July 31, 2020}}</ref> and served the Intensive Institute on Science Fiction and Science Fiction Writing Workshop.<ref>{{cite web |title=Science Fiction Writers Workshop |url=https://adastra-sf.com/Workshop-stuff/Spec-Fic-Workshop.htm |website=Speculative Fiction Writing Workshop}}</ref>

Pohl received the second annual J.&nbsp;W. Eaton Lifetime Achievement Award in Science Fiction from the [[University of California, Riverside]] Libraries at the 2009 [[Eaton Award|Eaton Science Fiction Conference]], "Extraordinary Voyages: [[Jules Verne]] and Beyond".<ref>{{cite press release |title=Press Release |publisher=The 2009 Eaton Science Fiction Conference |location=University of California, Riverside |date=September 19, 2008}}</ref><ref name=eaton/>

Pohl's work has been an influence on a wide variety of other science fiction writers, some of whom appear in the 2010 anthology, ''[[Gateways: Original New Stories Inspired by Frederik Pohl]]'', edited by Elizabeth Anne Hull.<ref name="Gateways">{{cite web |url=http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2010/06/more-about-gateways/ |title=Table of contents for 'Gateways'", "More About 'Gateways' |website=Thewaythefutureblogs.com |date=June 14, 2010 |access-date=September 8, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171126081854/http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2010/06/more-about-gateways/ |archive-date=November 26, 2017}}</ref>

Pohl's last novel, ''All the Lives He Led'', was released on April 12, 2011.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://us.macmillan.com/allthelivesheled |title=All the Lives He Led |publisher=Macmillan Publishers |date=July 9, 2012 |access-date=September 8, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110910141506/http://us.macmillan.com/allthelivesheled |archive-date=September 10, 2011}}</ref>

By the time of his death, he was working to finish a second volume of his autobiography ''The Way the Future Was'' (1979), along with an expanded version of the latter.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2013/09/frederik-pohl-nov-26-1919sept-2-2013/ |title=Frederik Pohl, Nov. 26, 1919-Sept. 2, 2013 |website=Thewaythefutureblogs.com |date=September 4, 2013 |access-date=September 7, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130907223148/http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2013/09/frederik-pohl-nov-26-1919sept-2-2013/ |archive-date=September 7, 2013}}</ref>

In July 2020, an academic description reported on the nature and rise of the "[[robot prosumer]]", derived from [[technology#Medieval and modern history (300 CE – present)|modern-day technology]] and related [[participatory culture]], that, in turn, was substantially predicted earlier by [[list of science fiction authors|science fiction writers]], most notably by Pohl.<ref name="EA-20200724">{{cite news |author=Lancaster University |author-link=Lancaster University |title=Sci-fi foretold social media, Uber and Augmented Reality, offers insights into the future - Science fiction authors can help predict future consumer patterns. |url=https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/lu-sfs072420.php |date=24 July 2020 |work=[[EurekAlert!]] |access-date=26 July 2020}}</ref><ref name="JCC-20200723">{{cite journal |last=Ryder |first=M.J. |title=Lessons from science fiction: Frederik Pohl and the robot prosumer |date=23 July 2020 |journal=[[Journal of Consumer Culture]] |volume=22 |pages=246–263 |doi=10.1177/1469540520944228 |url=https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/138821/1/FINAL_Frederik_Pohl_and_the_robot_prosumer.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200913071352/https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/138821/1/FINAL_Frederik_Pohl_and_the_robot_prosumer.pdf |archive-date=2020-09-13 |url-status=live |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name="LU-20200726">{{cite thesis |last=Ryder |first=Mike |title=Citizen robots:biopolitics, the computer, and the Vietnam period |url=https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/141870/ |date=26 July 2020 |journal=[[Lancaster University]] |access-date=26 July 2020 |type=phd}}</ref>