Editing Frederik Pohl (section)

===Collaborative work===
In addition to his solo writings, Pohl was also well known for his collaborations, beginning with his first published story.  Before and following the war, Pohl did a series of collaborations with his friend Cyril Kornbluth, including a large number of short stories and several novels, among them ''[[The Space Merchants]],'' a [[dystopia]]n [[satire]] of a world ruled by the advertising agencies.<ref name="Merchant's War">A belated sequel, ''[[The Merchants' War (Pohl novel)|The Merchants' War]]'' (1984) was written by Pohl alone, after Kornbluth's death. Pohl's ''[[The Merchants of Venus]]'' was an unconnected 1972 novella that includes biting satire on runaway [[free-market capitalism]] and first introduced the [[Heechee]].</ref>

In the mid-1950s, he began a long-running collaboration with Jack Williamson, eventually resulting in 10 collaborative novels over five decades.

Other collaborations included a novel with Lester Del Rey, ''Preferred Risk'' (1955).  This novel was solicited for a contest by Galaxy–Simon & Schuster when the judges did not think any of the contest submissions was good enough to win their contest. It was published under the joint pseudonym Edson McCann.<ref>Frederik Pohl, ''The Way the Future Was,'' Ballantine Books (1978),</ref> He also collaborated with [[Thomas T. Thomas]] on a sequel to his award-winning novel ''Man Plus.'' He wrote two short stories with Isaac Asimov in the 1940s, both published in 1950.<ref>Asimov, Isaac (1974). ''The Early Asimov Volume 2'', Panther Books, pp. 134 and 197-198. {{ISBN|0-586-03936-8}}</ref>

He finished a novel begun by [[Arthur C. Clarke]], ''[[The Last Theorem]]'', which was published on August 5, 2008.