ABOUT THE AUTHOR

FREDERIK POHL has written science fiction for more than seventy years. His novel Gateway won the Hugo, Nebula, and John W. Campbell Memorial awards for Best SF novel. Man Plus won the Nebula Award, and altogether he has won four Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards, including the Grand Master Award, among his many kudos. His most recent solo novel is The Boy Who Would Live Forever.

In addition to his solo fiction, Pohl has published collaborations with other writers, including C. M. Kornbluth, Isaac Asimov, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Lester del Rey, and Jack Williamson. One Pohl/Kornbluth collaboration, The Space Merchants, is a bestselling classic of satiric science fiction. The Starchild Trilogy with Williamson is one of the more notable collaborations in the field.

Pohl became a magazine editor when still a teenager. In the 1960s, he piloted Worlds of If to three successive Hugos for Best Magazine. He has edited original-story anthologies, notably the seminal Star series of the early 1950s. Among his other activities in the field, he has been a literary agent, has edited lines of science fiction books, and has been president of the Science Fiction Writers of America. He and his wife, Elizabeth Anne Hull, an academic active in the Science Fiction Research Association, live in Palatine, Illinois.