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RIP Frederik Pohl

Dades · 2013-09-03 20:56:38

http://io9.com/rip-frederik-pohl-the-man-who-transformed-science-fict-1241405614 Read a bunch of his stuff and really enjoyed it. Gateway was an obvious favourite, and I really liked The Last Theorem with Arthur C Clarke.

03-09-2013 09:56PM

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Dades

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http://io9.com/rip-frederik-pohl-the-man-who-transformed-science-fict-1241405614

Read a bunch of his stuff and really enjoyed it.
Gateway was an obvious favourite, and I really liked The Last Theorem with Arthur C Clarke.

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#2 03-09-2013 10:10PM

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Again, may he RIP. My favourite of his works was "The Merchants' War"

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#3 11-09-2013 10:58PM

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RIP. Another master passed on. Loved Gateway and The Space Merchants.

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#4 24-03-2014 11:47PM

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Anyone read "Jem"? Very good Pohl novel, with a convincing alien biology/ecology underpinning the narrative.

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#5 25-03-2014 03:11PM

Dades

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Pretty sure I read it a long time back. Not the one that stands out the most for me, however.

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#6 25-03-2014 03:40PM

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Three Hearts and three lions, was that him as well?

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#7 26-03-2014 07:48PM

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I only remember reading Gateway, but I did enjoy that.

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