WRITER

Frederik Pohl

1919 - 2013

Frederik Pohl

Frederik George Pohl Jr. (; November 26, 1919 – September 2, 2013) was an American science-fiction writer, editor, and fan, with a career spanning nearly 75 years—from his first published work, the 1937 poem "Elegy to a Dead Satellite: Luna", to the 2011 novel All the Lives He Led.From about 1959 until 1969, Pohl edited Galaxy and its sister magazine If; the latter won three successive annual Hugo Awards as the year's best professional magazine. His 1977 novel Gateway won four "year's best novel" awards: the Hugo voted by convention participants, the Locus voted by magazine subscribers, the Nebula voted by American science-fiction writers, and the juried academic John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frederik Pohl has received more than 571,911 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia. Frederik Pohl is the 1,819th most popular writer (up from 1,842nd in 2019), the 2,289th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,386th in 2019) and the 202nd most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

570k
Page Views (PV)
56.90
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
41
Languages Editions (L)
5.49
Effective Languages (L*)
3.88
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Man plus

Science fiction, Fiction in English, American Science fiction

1976

Beyond the Blue Event Horizon

Exploration, Fiction, Fiction in English

Heechee Saga #2 “In book two of the Heechee Saga, Robinette Broadhead is on his way to making a fortune by bankrolling an expedition to the Food Factory--a Heechee spaceship that can graze the cometary cloud and transfor the basic elements of the universe into untold quantities of food. But even as he gambles on the breakthrough technology, he is wracked with the guilt of losing his wife, poised forever at the "event horizon" of a black hole where Robin had abandoned her. As more and more information comes back from the expedition, Robin grows ever hopeful that he can rescue his beloved Gelle-Klara Moynlin. After three and a years, the factory is discovered to work, and a human is found aboard. Robin's suffering may be just about over…” From Goodreads

1980

Jem

Life on Other Planets, Interstellar Travel, Interstellar Colonization

The discovery of another habitable world might spell salvation to the three (Food Bloc, Fuel Bloc & People Bloc) bitterly competing power blocs of the war torn & resource-starved 21st century. But when their representatives arrive on Jem, with its three intelligent species, they discover instead the perfect situation into which to export their rivalries. Subtitled, with savage irony, 'The Making of a Utopia', Jem is one of Frederik Pohl's most powerful novels.

1979

Gateway

Science fiction, Hugo Award Winner, award:hugo_award=1978

Heechee Saga

1977

The annals of the Heechee

Science fiction

1987

The age of the pussyfoot

Fiction in English

1969

Page views of Frederik Pohls by language

Over the past year Frederik Pohl has had the most page views in the English wikipedia edition with 60,250 views, followed by Spanish (7,024), and Russian (5,960). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ukrainian (106.76%), Serbo-Croatian (92.49%), and Belarusian (91.63%)