![]() ![]() Delany’s groundbreaking Dhalgren, Joanna Russ’s The Female Man, John Brunner’s Web of Everywhere, and many others. Gold’s health began to decline, and under his tenure IF won the Hugo for Best Professional Magazine in 1966, 1967, and 1968.īy the mid 70s, Pohl was editing novels at Bantam Books his acquisitions were cover-labeled “A Frederik Pohl Selection,” a rare honor. In the late 1950s, he took the helm at Galaxy and IF magazines as H.L. ![]() Pohl was equally lauded as an editor, starting with two pulp magazines, Astonishing Stories and Super Science Stories, in 1939 (when he was still a teenager). ![]() He followed it with over 200 short stories and dozens of novels, including the back-to-back Nebula Award winners Man Plus (1976) and Gateway (1977). His first publication, at the age of 17, was the poem “Elegy to a Dead Satellite: Luna,” in the October 1937 issue of Amazing Stories. ![]() Pohl was one of the most important genre figures of the 20th Century. Science Fiction lost one of its brightest lights yesterday.įrederik Pohl - award-winning writer, editor, agent, and fan - entered the hospital in Palatine, Illinois, in respiratory distress yesterday morning, and died that afternoon. ![]()
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