"The most consistently able writer science fiction has yet produced." -- Kingsley Amis

"[Pohl's] tales are known for their gritty, straightforward style and for their insightful ideas about our political, social and ecological future." --Publishers Weekly.

Legend of Legends, Builder of Worlds

He's Mr. Science Fiction. He's done it all from founding pulp pioneer to book editor of the best of the best to best-selling author himself...Frederik Pohl has done it all. Lifelong friend to the likes of Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke -- and just about every science fiction writer of note during the genre's Golden Age and beyond.

And THEN came the 1970s to the present, when Pohl proved he'd just begun to create science fiction and a torrent of amazing stories poured forth. If you take your SF with a sense of wonder. With sparkling wit. With a bit of social satire that doesn't for a moment feel heavy-handed or one-sided, you'll find Pohl is a bountiful font. Okay -- he's more like a Niagara Falls of Wonder, to tell the truth. So much -- and all of it of such quality -- that it seemed almost impossible to sample, much less collect.

We've done it.

Here is Volume II of a two-volume compendium featuring the best of Frederik Pohl. Here you'll find a special collection of Pohlian wit and wisdom found in such near future romping adventures as Nababedla, Ltd., The Age of Pussyfoot, Homegoing, and O! Pioneers in which humans, that-which-humans-will-become, and aliens of every stripe have, shall we say, not the purest motives when the meet-and-greet is done and now must all somehow get along in a very raucous -- and very dangerous -- galaxy. But, as always with Pohl, the social commentary is kept within bounds and each and every story is cut through with incredible ideas each with its own amazing technological implications -- and all are chockfull of adventure. How would a war with a mentat corps be fought when military-built mental viruses can be transmitted mind-to-mind? How would you bankroll the terraforming of Mars? Could you do it without engaging in a few financial shenanigans and ruining a few unfortunate suckers? Not likely.

We've completed the volume with an astounding variety of Pohl short stories and novellas --all abounding in the same droll humor, the same action-oriented prose and wry-but-genuine sympathy for the human condition that makes Pohl a science fiction legend.

Here's the skinny on Volume II:

The World at the End of Time
Narabedla, Ltd.
Homegoing
Slave Ship
The Age of the Pussyfoot
Pohlstars
Mining the Oort
The Voice of Heaven
O Pioneer!
The Early Pohl

A massive Pohl compilation of wonder. No shipping costs. No dead tree crumble. Big thought. Huge adventure. Massively wonder-inducing ideas. And, of course, all presented in the reader-friendly, unencrypted formats Baen Ebooks is known for.

Frederik Pohl. Galactic Gatekeeper. SF Cornerstone and Grandmaster. Legend of legends. Builder-of-worlds. Give yourself the journey of several lifetimes, with ideas and adventure spanning from Pohl to Pohl!