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Frederik George Pohl Jr. was an American science-fiction writer, editor, and fan, with a career spanning nearly 75 years—from his first published work, the 1937 poem "Elegy to a Dead Satellite: Luna", to the 2011 novel All the Lives He Led.
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culture · American science fiction writer and editor (1919–2013) · editor · novelist · writer · journalist · science fiction writer · literary agent · also Frederik Pohl, Frederik George Pohl, Jr., Frederik Pohl II, Edson McCann, Jordan Park, Elton V. Andrews
Born 26 November 1919 · Died 2 September 2013 · Q312641
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See, there’s a bit of a problem here. It’s true that editors are always begging for something new and different, but if you’re dumb enough to try to give it to them they don’t recognize it. When they ask for ‘different,’ what they mean is something right down the good old ‘different’ groove.
friends came and went and were gone, [but] many of the ones I met through fandom were friends all their lives – Isaac, Damon Knight, Cyril Kornbluth, Dirk Wylie, [and] Dick Wilson. In fact, there are one or two – Jack Robins, Dave Kyle – whom I still count as friends, seventy-odd years later....
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“See, there’s a bit of a problem here. It’s true that editors are always begging for something new and different, but if you’re dumb enough to try to give it to them they don’t recognize it. When they ask for ‘different,’ what they mean is something right down the good old ‘different’ groove.”
“friends came and went and were gone, [but] many of the ones I met through fandom were friends all their lives – Isaac, Damon Knight, Cyril Kornbluth, Dirk Wylie, [and] Dick Wilson. In fact, there are one or two – Jack Robins, Dave Kyle – whom I still count as friends, seventy-odd years later....”
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Published “Dulaglutide and cardiovascular outcomes in type 2 diabetes (REWIND): a double-blind, randomised placebo-controlled trial” in The Lancet — cited 2,671 times.
Published “DNA methylation-based classification of central nervous system tumours” in Nature — cited 2,774 times.
Cleveland.com: Frederik Pohl, famed science-fiction author, dead at 93
Phys.org: Science Fiction writer Frederik Pohl dead at 93
Gizmodo: RIP Frederik Pohl, the man who transformed science fiction
Died 2013-09-02.
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Published “Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,801 times.
For his blog, "The Way the Future Blogs"
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Was awarded an honorary diploma from Brooklyn Tech
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Published “Renoprotective Effect of the Angiotensin-Receptor Antagonist Irbesartan in Patients with Nephropathy Due to Type 2 Diabetes” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 4,709 times.
Awarded Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame (1998).
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Published “The complete genome sequence of the Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis” in Nature — cited 2,819 times.
When the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award became a juried award, Pohl served first with James Gunn and Judith Merril, and since then with several others until retiring in 2013
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Awarded Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award (1993).
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And he was inducted by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 1998, its third class of two dead and two living writers
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Awarded Hugo Award for Best Short Story for Fermi and Frost (1986).
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Awarded John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel for The Years of the City (1985).
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Awarded National Book Award for Jem (1980).
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Awarded Prix Tour-Apollo Award for Gateway (1979).
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For his autobiography The Way the Future Was
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Awarded John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel for Gateway (1978).
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Awarded Nebula Award for Best Novel for Gateway (1978).
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Awarded Hugo Award for Best Novel for Gateway (1978).
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Awarded Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel for Gateway (1978).
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Gateway swept the other two major novel honors, also winning the Hugo Award for Best Novel and John W
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Awarded Nebula Award for Best Novel for Man Plus (1977).
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And Gateway, the first Heechee novel, in 1977
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With what later became Gunn's Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas
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Awarded Hugo Award for Best Short Story for The Meeting (1973).
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Awarded Locus Award for Best Novella for The Gold at the Starbow's End (1973).
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For the Literature of Science Fiction Lecture Series, and served the Intensive Institute on Science Fiction and Science Fiction Writing Workshop
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Awarded Edward E. Smith Memorial Award (1966).
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Awarded Hugo Award for Best Professional Magazine for If (1966).
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Aged one month), Frederik IV (a Los Angeles-based actor, writer, and producer), and Kathy
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But it was a sideline for him until after World War II, when he began doing it full-time
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Pohl joined the Young Communist League because of its positions in support of unions and against racial prejudice, Adolf Hitler, and Benito Mussolini
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Born 1919-11-26.
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