A more complete list would also include Bradbury's `` The Pedestrian '' ( 1951 ), Philip K. Dick's Solar Lottery ( 1955 ), David Karp's One ( 1953 ), Wilson Tucker's The Long Loud Silence ( 1952 ), Jack Vance's To Live Forever ( 1956 ), Gore Vidal's Messiah ( 1954 ), and Bernard Wolfe's Limbo ( 1952 ), as well as the three perhaps most outstanding dystopias, Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth's The Space Merchants ( 1953 ), Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano ( 1952 ), and John Wyndham's Re-Birth ( 1953 ), works which we will later examine in detail.

How effectively these warnings can be presented is seen in Pohl and Kornbluth's The Space Merchants, Vonnegut's Player Piano and Wyndham's Re-Birth.

Humans linked to machines are found in Pohl and Kornbluth's Wolfbane ( 1959 ) and Roger Zelazny's Creatures of Light and Darkness ( 1968 ).

To this end, he compares George Orwell's Coming Up for Air with Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth's The Space Merchants and concludes that the basic building block and distinguishing feature of a science fiction novel is the presence of the novum, a term Darko Suvin adapts from Ernst Bloch and defines as " a discrete piece of information recognizable as not-true, but also as not-unlike-true, not-flatly-( and in the current state of knowledge ) impossible ".

Di Filippo argues that precursors of ribofunk fiction include H. G. Wells ' The Island of Doctor Moreau ; Julian Huxley's The Tissue Culture King ; some of David H. Keller's stories, Damon Knight's Natural State and Other Stories ; Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth's Gravy Planet ; novels of T. J. Bass and Varley ; Greg Bear's Blood Music and Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix.

The model of a planet covered in clouds of polymeric formaldehyde dust was never as popular as a swamp or jungle, but featured in several notable stories, like Poul Anderson's The Big Rain ( 1954 ), and Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth's novel The Space Merchants ( 1953 ).

-- A jury of seven men and five women found 21-year-old Richard Pohl guilty of manslaughter yesterday in the bludgeon slaying of Mrs. Anna Hengesbach.

Hence the group included supporters of Trotskyism, like Judith Merril and others who would have been deemed far left for the era ( Frederik Pohl became a member of the Communist Party in 1936, but later quit in 1939 ).

Notable writing judges have included: Algis Budrys, Gregory Benford, Kevin J. Anderson, Orson Scott Card, Jack Williamson, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Brian Herbert, K. D. Wentworth, Tim Powers, Robert J. Sawyer, Frederik Pohl, Jerry Pournelle, Andre Norton, Larry Niven, and Anne McCaffrey.

The Heechee in fact originated as a plot device enabling Pohl to give a plausible reason for humans to make the effort of colonizing the inhospitable planet that space probes have proven Venus to be.

More recently, as former axioms of ethnogenesis have shifted, the historian Walter Pohl noted that " centuries after the fall of the Balkan provinces, a pastoral Latin-Roman tradition served as the point of departure for a Valachian-Roman ethnogenesis.

The claim that Henry Sinclair explored North America has been popularised by several other authors, notably by Frederick J. Pohl, Andrew Sinclair, Michael Bradley, William S. Crooker ( who claimed to have discovered Henry Sinclair's castle in Nova Scotia ), Steven Sora, and more recently by David Goudsward.

Some historians have suggested that it was created following the orders of SS-Obergruppenführer Oswald Pohl on June 11, 1943.

* In the Heechee books by Frederik Pohl the race of pure energy beings called The Foe have constructed the Kugelblitz, a black hole made of energy and not matter.

Distinguished guest presenters have included Billy Collins, Gwendolyn Brooks, Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman ; journalists Rick Bragg, Dana Kozlov, Burt Constable, and Eric Zorn ; novelists Jane Hamilton, Raymond Benson, Rosellen Brown, Harry Mark Petrakis, and Frederik Pohl ; poets Nikki Giovanni, Naomi Shihab Nye, and poetry slam creator Marc Smith ; screenwriters Bill Kelly and Craig J. Nevius ; and sportswriters Dan Roan and Mike Imrem.

New York Times reviewer Gerald Jonas received the novel unfavorably, saying " Pohl seems to have lost his touch entirely.

None of these universes are quite like our universe ; however, they all have some element or other in common, many of which Pohl develops to satiric effect.

Also in 2002, Ellison stepped down from CEO and named Michael J. Pohl, who had been the company's president ( and former CEO of SkyConnect ) since 1999, as CEO.

Pohl, commenting about that time, said " we four marched from Brooklyn to the sea, leaving a wide scar of burned out clubs behind us.

Frederik Pohl reported that Vance had " pretty carefully " worked out his extrapolation, but that " it isn't terribly convincing as presented ".

In April 1963, Galaxy Publishing brought out the first issue of Worlds of Tomorrow, another science fiction magazine, also edited by Pohl.

After the end of the war, Pohl attended courses at a trade school, and began studying law and state theory at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel ; he dropped out of university soon again though, and became paymaster for the Freikorps " Brigade Löwenfeld ", working in Berlin, Upper Silesia and the Ruhr basin.

When the First World War broke out Pohl became a proponent of the U-boat arm.

" Bob Pohl of The Buffalo News said, " pulls a number of short passages out of context and attempts to parse them for sense.

This developed into a selling point when a letter from a reader, Clayton Hamlin, prompted Pohl to declare that he would publish a new writer in every single issue of the magazine, though he was also able to attract well-known writers.

* The Space Merchants is a science fiction novel, written by Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth in 1952, about the campaign by advertising agencies on an overpopulated Earth to convince humans to colonize Venus, which is depicted as having a harsh and stormy tropical climate.

Frederik Pohl, in his autobiography The Way the Future Was, said that the origins of the Futurians started with the Science Fiction League founded by Hugo Gernsback in 1934, the New York City local chapter of which was called the " Brooklyn Science Fiction League " or BSFL, and headed by G. G. Clark.

The Austrian school ( led by Reinhard Wenskus ) popularized this idea, which influenced medievalists such as Herwig Wolfram, Walter Pohl and Patrick Geary.

He wrote after the war, " The Emperor did not wish for losses of this sort ... Orders issued by the Emperor ... after an audience with Pohl, to which I as usual was not summoned, to restrict the initiative of the Commander-in-Chief of the North Sea Fleet.

On March 23, 1942, Himmler asked Oswald Pohl " to gradually develop a diet which, like that of Roman soldiers or Egyptian slaves, contains all the vitamins and is simple and cheap ".

A skyhook figures prominently in Arthur C. Clarke's posthumous novel The Last Theorem, which he co-wrote with Frederik Pohl.

Named after the 1960 short story " The Day the Icicle Works Closed " by science fiction author Frederik Pohl, The Icicle Works joined Liverpool's early 1980s ' neo-psychedelia ' wave, which also propelled Echo & the Bunnymen and The Teardrop Explodes to stardom.

A response to this story is " The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass " by Frederik Pohl, in which a man travels back to 1 BCE and teaches modern medicine, causing a population explosion.

According to Pohl, in his autobiography The Way the Future Was, the Futurians held their own counter-convention which was attended by several who went to the regular convention.

Along with Pohl, the four started calling themselves the " Quadrumvirate ".

At one point in the earliest 1940s, approximately half of all the pulp sf and fantasy magazines in the U. S. were being edited by Futurians: Frederik Pohl at the Popular Publications offshoot Fictioneers, Inc. ( Astonishing Stories and Super-Science Stories ); Robert Lowndes at Columbia Publications, most notably with Science Fiction and Future Fiction ( though through the decade to come, Lowndes's responsibilities would expand to other types of fiction magazine in the chain ), and Donald Wollheim at the very marginal Albing Publications with the short-lived, micro-budgeted Cosmic Stories and Stirring Science Stories ( Wollheim soon moved on to Avon Books ; Doë " Leslie Perri " Baumgardt also worked on a romance fiction title for Albing ).

* Frederik Pohl profile with several paragraphs on the Futurians

* A space elevator is also constructed in the course of Clarke's final novel ( co-written with Frederik Pohl ), The Last Theorem.

* Science Fiction Today and Tomorrow: A Discursive Symposium ( 1975, with Frederik Pohl, Poul Anderson, Jack Williamson, Ray Bradbury, Hal Clement, Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert, Hugo Gernsback, Theodore Sturgeon, A. E. van Vogt, Cory Panshin, Larry Niven, James Blish, Harlan Ellison, E. E. Smith )

* The Craft of Science Fiction: A Symposium on Writing Science Fiction and Science Fantasy ( 1976, with Robert A. Heinlein, Frederik Pohl, Larry Niven, Poul Anderson, Harlan Ellison, Hal Clement, A. E. van Vogt, Frank Herbert, Jerry Pournelle, Isaac Asimov, Jack Williamson, Norman Spinrad )

By the late 1950s, Frederik Pohl was helping Gold with most aspects of the magazine's production.

Pohl, who had been intermittently helping Gold with editorial duties for some time prior to the car accident, is first listed as editor of If on the masthead of the November 1961 issue, and as editor of Galaxy for the December 1961 issue, but he had been acting as editor of both magazines for at least six months before the end of the year.

Pohl paid one cent per word for the stories he bought for If, whereas Galaxy paid three cents per word, and like Gold he regarded Galaxy as the leading magazine of the two, whereas If was somewhere he could work with new writers, and try experiments and whims.

In the Frederik Pohl novel Search the Sky, the main character Ross, encounters a planet with a gerontocracy masquerading as a democracy.

F & SF assembled more than a dozen special issues devoted to a single author, beginning with a special issue on Theodore Sturgeon ( September 1962 ), followed by Ray Bradbury ( May 1963 ), Isaac Asimov ( October 1966 ), Fritz Leiber ( July 1969 ), Poul Anderson ( April 1971 ), James Blish ( April 1972 ), Frederik Pohl ( September 1973 ), Robert Silverberg ( April 1974 ), Damon Knight ( November 1976 ), Harlan Ellison ( July 1977 ), Stephen King ( December 1990 ), Lucius Shepard ( March 2001 ), Kate Wilhelm ( September 2001 ), Barry N. Malzberg ( June 2003 ) and Gene Wolfe ( April 2007 ).

On 1 February 1942, both institutions were combined into the SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt ( SS-WVHA, " SS main bureau for economic administration ") with Pohl in charge.

Late in 1944, control of the concentration camps was removed from Pohl, with the Rüstungsministerium ( ministry of armament ) taking over ; at the same time, the responsibility for construction was also taken away from the SS-WVHA.

Initially a revival of NBC's Dimension X ( 1950 – 51 ), the first 15 episodes of X Minus One were new versions of Dimension X episodes, but the remainder were adaptations by NBC staff writers, including Ernest Kinoy and George Lefferts, of newly published science fiction stories by leading writers in the field, including Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, Frederik Pohl and Theodore Sturgeon, along with some original scripts by Kinoy and Lefferts.

At her trial in May 2005, Colonel James Pohl declared a mistrial on the grounds that he could not accept her plea of guilty under a plea-bargain to a charge of conspiring with Spc.

Another pre-trial hearing was held on October 22, at Camp Victory in Baghdad, with Pohl again presiding as judge.

The trial officially began on January 7, at the Williams Judicial Center in Fort Hood, with Colonel James Pohl presiding.

Referring to military intelligence, Graner testified " I nearly beat an MI detainee to death with MI there " before Pohl cut him off.

The team, with star, Ernest Pohl, was third in 1958, to regain the crown in 1959 and 1961, together with such players as Stanislaw Oslizlo and Hubert Kostka.