CRITICAL MASS

Pohl, Frederik, and C.M. Kornbluth

ISBN 10: 0553109480 / ISBN 13: 9780553109481

Published by Bantam Books, Inc., New York, 1977

About this Item

Cover price $1.75. Cover art by Eddie Jones. Collects eleven of the authors' stories. A hint of toning to the pages. A fine and bright copy. Appears unread. Seller Inventory # 45297

Bibliographic Details

Title: CRITICAL MASS

Publisher: Bantam Books, Inc., New York

Publication Date: 1977

Binding: Paperback

Illustrator: Eddie Jones

Edition: First paperback edition, first printing.

Book Type: Book

About this title

Synopsis:

Paperback original collection of stories. Includes foreword and afterward by Pohl, and these stories: The Quaker Cannon (1961); Mute Inglorious Tam (1974); The World of Myrion Flowers (1961); The Gift of Garigolli (1974); A Gentle Dying (1961); A Hint of Henbane (1961); The Meeting (1972); The Engineer (1956); Nightmare with Zeppelins (1958); Critical Mass (1962).

About the Author:

Frederik Pohl (1919-2013) Frederik Pohl had an extensive career as both a writer and editor spanning over seventy years. Using various pseudonyms, Pohl began writing in the late 1930s, his first published work being a poem titled "Elegy to a Dead Planet: Luna", which appeared in the October 1937 issue of Amazing Stories. Pohl edited both Astonishing Stories and Super Science Stories between 1939 and 1943 and whilst many of his own stories appeared in these two pulp magazines they were never under his own name. After this period, from 1943 to 1945, Pohl served in the U.S. Army, rising to the rank of sergeant as an air corps weatherman. Between the end of the war and the early '50s, Pohl was active as a literary agent, representing many successful writers of the genre including Isaac Asimov. The winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula awards, Pohl became the SFWA Grand Master in 1993 and was inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 1998. He died in September 2013.