I’ve never been able to get The Age of the Pussyfoot out of my head.
It’s not just that it felt like a future, but that every step we take into the future, as our phones become our iPods become our secretaries become our friends become our credit cards, the Joymaker sits in the back of my head. That’s where we’re going.
Neil Gaiman can be found online at neilgaiman.com
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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
- Joe Haldeman: Wolfbane and The Space Merchants
- 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
Always will be Gateway, was my first Pohl, adn I think the HeeChee books are a great escape.