Frederik Pohl Boeken

Wanneer op aarde een nucleair conflict uitbreekt lijkt de door de kolonistenplaneet Jem de enige uitweg voor de mensheid te vormen.

Fred Pohl, multiple winner of science-fiction's top awards, presents a breathtaking romp through the energy-poor world of the 2020s - a gripping chase-intrigue novel with a highly unlikely stand-in for James Bond. One day, the Reverend Hornswell Hake had nothing worse to contend with than the customary power shortages and his routine pastoral chores, such as counseling the vivacious Alys Brant - and her husbands and wife. At nearly forty, his life was placid, almost humdrum. The very next day, Horny Hake was first enlisted as an unwilling agent of the Team - secret successor to the long-discredited CIA - and then courted by an anti-Team underground group. In practically no time at all, Horny and Alys were touring Europe on a mission about which he knew zip, except that it was a new move in the Cool War, the worldwide campaign of sabotage that had replaced actual combat. For the team and its opponents, though, the Cool War could be as perilous as any hot one, as Horny Hake discovered when he came up against *Leota, lovely leader of the underground cabal, dedicated to destroying the Team; *Yosper, the Bible-thumping, foul-mouthed nonogenarian killer; *The Reddi twins, professional terrorists who turned up in the oddest places at the worst times and always managed to make Horny's life miserable; *And Pegleg, master of such lethal toys as the Bulgarian Brolly and the Peruvian Pen. Picaresque and fast-moving, THE COOL WAR is also a deeply ironic, often hilarious, yet thought-provoking look at where we could be, some forty years from now.

De Ruimteriffen zijn een gebied voorbij Pluto waar kleine in de ruimte levende organismen waterstof fuseren tot zwaardere elementen. In de loop van miljoenen jaren ontstaan zo ware ruimteriffen analoog aan de aardse koraalriffen. Hierin leven talloze grote en kleine ruimte organismen. Deze ruimteriffen bieden een ideale schuilplaats aan vluchtelingen van de overbevolkte en autoritair geregeerde Aarde die wachten op betere tijden. Steven Ryeland is een belangrijke nieuwkomer, met kennis van een effectieve ruimteaandrijving die de mensheid toegang kan geven tot de sterren. Er is echter een dynamietring om zijn hals aangebracht toen hij in een aards gevangenenkamp vastzat. Zullen de bannelingen zijn ring op tijd kunnen verwijderen voordat deze ontploft?

Contents Report From the Planet Earth • essay by Frederik Pohl The Last Word • essay by Elizabeth Anne Hull Sitting Around the Pool, Soaking Up the Rays • (1984) • short story by Frederik Pohl The Thursday Events • short story by Ye Yonglie User Friendly • short story by Spider Robinson Life as an Ant • short story by André Carneiro Fiddling for Waterbuffaloes • (1986) • novella by S.P. Somtow [as by Somtow Sucharitkul ] S Is for Snake • short story by Lino Aldani The Divided Carla • (1985) • novelette by Josef Nesvadba The View From the Top of the Tower • (1986) • short story by Harry Harrison Don't Knock the Rock • short story by A. Bertram Chandler The Owl of Bear Island • short story by Jon Bing Contacts of a Fourth Kind • short story by Ljuben Dilov Infestation • short story by Brian W. Aldiss In the Blink of an Eye • short story by Carlos Maria Federici Particularly Difficult Territory • short story by Janusz A. Zajdel Time Everlasting • short story by Sam Lundwall The Middle Kingdom • short story by Tong Enzheng and Elizabeth Anne Hull On the Inside Track • novelette by Karl-Michael Armer The Legend of the Paper Spaceship • (1978) • novelette by Tetsu Yano We Servants of the Stars • short story by Frederik Pohl Notes on Contributors • essay by uncredited

A Guide to the Perplexed (1980) (essay) by Frederik Pohl; The Persistence of Vision (1978) by John Varley; Stone (1978) by Edward Bryant; A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn's Eye (1977) by Charles L. Grant; Science 1938 (1980) (essay) by Isaac Asimov; The Future of Science Fiction (1980) (essay) by Norman Spinrad; Dreamsnake (Excerpt) (1978) by Vonda N. McIntyre; Little Green Men from Afar (1976) (essay) by L. Sprague de Camp; Cassandra (1978) by C. J. Cherryh; Seven American Nights (1978) by Gene Wolfe.

Ballantine paperback, 4th printing (1975) with Karl Swanson. The novel was first serialized in Galaxy Magazine in 1956, and published in book form the following year. Pohl has a reputation of one of SF's master satirists; this novel is about a world in the throes of a low-intensity global war, which appears to be an amplified representation of the Vietnam War (in which the U.S. was just becoming involved).