As impressive as Fred’s later work is, the two that made the biggest impression on me were novels I read when I was still in high school—Wolfbane and The Space Merchants. I suppose most of the sf I’d read before that was pretty much hooray-for-the-future optimism. Fred’s darker vision (along with Kornbluth’s) woke up something new and frighteningly adult in me.
Joe Haldeman can be found online at home.earthlink.net/~haldeman/
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All the Lives He Led (978-0-7653-2176-3 / $25.99) by Frederik Pohl will be available from Tor Books on April 12, 2011.
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Related Links:
- What’s your Favorite Frederik Pohl novel?
- Jody Lynn Nye: Starburst
- Mike Resnick: The Way the Future Was
- Harry Harrison: The Space Merchants
- Vernor Vinge: Slave Ship
- Neil Gaiman: The Age of the Pussyfoot
- Cory Doctorow: The Space Merchants
- David Brin: Wolfbane
- James E. Gunn: Gateway and The Space Merchants
- Gregory Benford & Elisabeth Malatre: Man Plus
- Larry Niven: The Age of the Pussyfoot
- Ben Bova: The Space Merchants
- Phyllis Eisenstein: The Space Merchants
