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A Plague of Pythons is a science fiction novel by American writer Frederik Pohl. Serialized in Galaxy Science Fiction in October and December 1962, the novel was published in 1965, and an updated version was published in 1984 under the title Demon in the Skull. The title derives from the words "Domina Pythonis" used as part of an exorcism ritual performed in the first chapter to scare away the "demons" that seem to possess people in the novel. The...

Frederik Pohl was an influential writer and editor. As an editor he won three Hugo awards for best professional magazine. As a writer he won four Hugo Awards and three Nebulas. Pohl was awarded the title of Grand Master by the Science fiction Writers of America and is a member of the Science Fiction Hall of fame. Collected here are a novel and five stories that helped Pohl carve his name onto the science fiction field. His stories are imaginative...

Frederik Pohl was one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time, with a career that spanned 7 decades (and won him every major award in the field). Included are ten of his classic novels and short stories: PLAGUE OF PYTHONS THE DAY OF THE BOOMER DUKES MY LADY GREENSLEEVES THE TUNNEL UNDER THE WORLD PYTHIAS SEARCH THE SKY (written with C. M. Kornbluth) THE HATED THE KNIGHTS OF ARTHUR SURVIVAL KIT PREFERRED RISK (written with Lester...

Great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here: "Asteroid of the Damned" by Frederic Pohl and Dirk Wylie, "Rundown" by Robert Lory, "The Time of Cold" by Mary Carlson, "The Cosmic Derelict" by John Broome, "The Thing of Venus" by Wilburn S. Peacock, "Satellite of Fear" and "Pied Piper of Mars" both by Frederic Arnold Kummer, and "The Last Martian" by Ray Van Houten.

Amazing Stories Volume 130 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are five short stories by different authors: "A Hitch in Time" by Frederik Pohl, "The Penultimate Trump" by R. C. W. Ettinger, "Definition" by Damon Knight, "The Sky Was Full Of Ships" by Theodore Sturgeon, and "You Are Forbidden!" by Jerry Shelton.

Hugo and Nebula award-winning science fiction Grand Master Frederik Pohl presents a fictional account of the worst nuclear disaster in human history. Chernobyl: The very name conjures the catastrophe that the world feared could happen someday at a nuclear power plant. On April 26, 1986, a power surge caused the core of one of the reactors to explode, spewing a cloud of radioactive steam into the Ukrainian air. More than four thousand people died,...

The Science Fiction Novel Super Pack #1 brings you ten full novels, and more than 1,500 pages of awe inspiring fiction. These are the novelists who shaped the field. Collectively these authors have won thirteen Hugo awards and four Nebula awards, while six of them have been named Grand Masters by the Science Fiction Writers of America. Collected here are: 'Empire' by Clifford D. Simak; 'Falcons of Narabedla' by Marion Zimmer Bradley; 'The Green Odyssey'...

One minute Herrell McCray was on the spaceship circling Betelgeuse Nine and the next he was in darkness and utter silence. McCray had no idea where he was to how he got there. To Hatcher, he was a specimen from Earth.

Frederik Pohl, the bestselling author of The Boy Who Would Live Forever, is famous for his novels, but first and foremost, he is a master of the science fiction short story. For more than fifty years he has been writing incisive, entertaining SF stories, several hundred in all. Even while writing his bestselling triple-crown (Hugo, Nebula, Campbell Award) novel Gateway and the other Heechee Saga novels, he has always written short fiction. Now,...