Frederik Pohl's Gateway
mudd up! (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
Gateway - Frederik Pohl. Don’t let the cover fool you.This isn’t a novel about space or brave men doing fancy things, it’s a novel about waiting around in a cramped, miserable future, where people pay enormous amounts to take lethal gambles using technology left behind by a vanished alien intelligence, cryptic technology which starving humanity [...]
Book Calendar (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
A portrait of Pierre de Fermat, French lawyer and mathematician. Good Evening I wrote a short review today. Today has been a day for relaxation. I finished reading another book, The Last Theorem by Frederik Pohl and Arthur C. Clarke. Arthur C. Clarke died before the book was published. Frederik Pohl might have finished Arthur C. Clark's novel. I am really not quite sure about this one. It is a solidly...
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
The most exciting part of "The Last Theorem" (Del Rey: 304 pp., $27), the novel by the late Arthur C. Clarke and fellow science fiction veteran Frederik Pohl, has nothing to do with the titular titillation of finding a proof...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
The Last Theorem By Arthur C. Clarke and Frederik Pohl Del Rey; 299 pages; $27 Completed only a few days before the death of Arthur C. Clarke, "The Last Theorem" is a paean to the elegance of mathematics and the power of the scientific method. Co-written with...
Turkish daily news (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Arthur C. Clarke's health was failing fast, but he still had a story to tell. So he turned to fellow science fiction writer Frederik Pohl, and together the longtime friends wrote what turned out to be
Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
Arthur C. Clarke's health was failing fast, but he still had a story to tell. So he turned to fellow science fiction writer Frederik Pohl, and together the longtime friends wrote what turned out to be Clarke's final novel.
Free Internet Press (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Arthur C. Clarke's health was failing fast, but he still had a story to tell. So he turned to fellow science fiction writer Frederik Pohl, and together the longtime friends wrote what turned out to be Clarke's last novel. "The Last Theorem," which grew from 100 pages of notes scribbled by Clarke, is more than a futuristic tale about a mathematician who discovers a proof to a centuries-old mathematical...
CentOS, Linux and Operating Systems (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
Ubuntukitten writes “The Telegraph is running an excerpt from Arthur C. Clark’s last work, called ‘The Last Theorem.’ Fellow writer Frederik Pohl helped out. It’s a reassuring chunk of old-fashioned sci-fi, describing an Olympics that’s set on the moon. Typically for Clarkian sci-fi, is very much about the practicalities of mounting a Lunar Olympics, rather [...]
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
Arthur C. Clarke's health was failing fast, but he still had a story to tell. So he turned to fellow science fiction writer Frederik Pohl, and together the longtime friends wrote what turned out to be Clarke's last novel.
Tilt.no (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
Ubuntukitten writes "The Telegraph is running an excerpt from Arthur C. Clark's last work, called 'The Last Theorem.' Fellow writer Frederik Pohl helped out. It's a reassuring chunk of old-fashioned sci-fi, describing an Olympics that's set on the moon. Typically for Clarkian sci-fi, is very much about the practicalities of mounting a Lunar Olympics, rather than any wild fantasy." The excerpt's centerpiece...
TechBlogger (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
Ubuntukitten writes “The Telegraph is running an excerpt from Arthur C. Clark’s last work, called ‘The Last Theorem.’ Fellow writer Frederik Pohl helped out. It’s a reassuring chunk of old-fashioned sci-fi, describing an Olympics that’s set on the moon. Typically for Clarkian sci-fi, is very much about the practicalities of mounting a Lunar Olympics, rather [...]
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
Joseph Mallozzi interviews artist John Picacio (covers for Jeffrey Ford, Frederik Pohl, Walter M. Miller - great stuff!) [Ed: Thanks for the kind birthday wishes, Joe!] James Wallace Harris breaks down what stories are in which "Best of" anthologies this year - very cool! Review: Seeds of Change edited by John Joseph Adams Locus Awards problems "Watchmen" artist Dave Gibbons on Alan Moore's choice...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
Arthur C Clarke's final book of science fiction, written with Frederik Pohl, transports the reader to the first Lunar Olympics. This is an exclusive extract.
BTC News (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Player Piano, by Kurt Vonnegut The Space Merchants, by Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth This month’s selection is a pair of books that plot out future American dystopias as envisioned in 1952. I think it’s an interesting time, in that even in heyday of the American capitalist mythology, a few authors were still frustrated enough [...]
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Arthur C. Clarke's final novel (co-written with Frederik Pohl) will be The Last Theorem . [via File 770 ] At SciFi Wire, John Joseph Adams profiles David J. Williams , author of The Mirrored Heavens . Free audiobook: Storm Over Warlock by Andre Norton. Escape Pod podcasts Ken MacLeod's Hugo-nominated story " Who's Afraid of Wolf 359? " The Fix interviews Catherynne M. Valente Artist John Picacio previews...
