Platinum Pohl

Platinum Pohl

First edition cover
Author	Frederik Pohl
Publisher	Tor Books
Publication date	December 27, 2005
ISBN	0-312-87527-4

Platinum Pohl: The Collected Best Stories is a collection of thirty science fiction stories by Frederik Pohl, first published in December 2005 by Tor Books (ISBN 0-312-87527-4).^[1][2][3] It includes a volume introduction and story introductions by the editor, James Frenkel, plus an afterword by Pohl.

Contents

• Introduction by James Frenkel
• "The Merchants of Venus", Worlds of If, July/August 1972.
• "The Things That Happen", Asimov's, October 1985
• "The High Test", Asimov's, June 1983.
• "My Lady Green Sleeves", Galaxy, February 1957.
• "The Kindly Isle", Asimov's, November 1984.
• "The Middle of Nowhere", Galaxy, May 1955.
• "I Remember a Winter", Orbit 11, Damon Knight (ed.), 1972.
• "The Greening of Bed-Stuy", F&SF, July 1984.
• "To See Another Mountain", F&SF, April 1959.
• "The Mapmakers", Galaxy, July 1955.
• "Spending a Day at the Lottery Fair", F&SF, October 1983.
• "The Celebrated No-Hit Inning", Fantastic Universe, September 1956.
• "Some Joys Under the Star", Galaxy, November 1973.
• "Servant of the People", Analog, February 1983.
• "Waiting for the Olympians", Asimov's, August 1988.
• "Criticality", Analog, December 1984.
• "Shaffery Among the Immortals", F&SF, July 1972.
• "The Day the Icicle Works Closed", Galaxy, February 1960.
• "Saucery", F&SF, October 1986.
• "The Gold at the Starbow's End", Analog, March 1972.
• "Growing Up in Edge City", Epoch, Roger Elwood and Robert Silverberg (eds.), 1975.
• "The Knights of Arthur", Galaxy, January 1958.
• "Creation Myths of the Recently Extinct", Analog, January 1994.
• "The Meeting" (in collaboration with C.M. Kornbluth), F&SF, November 1972.
• "Let the Ants Try", (as by James MacCreigh) Planet Stories, Winter 1949.
• "Speed Trap", Playboy, November 1967.
• "The Day the Martians Came", Dangerous Visions, Harlan Ellison (ed.), 1967.
• "Day Million", Rogue, February/March 1966.
• "The Mayor of Mare Tranq", The Williamson Effect, Tor, 1996.
• "Fermi and Frost", Asimov's, January 1985.
• Afterword : Fifty Years and Counting.

References

1. "Platinum Pohl". Kirkus Reviews. 2005-11-01. Retrieved 2024-10-11.
2. "Platinum Pohl: The Collected Best Stories by Frederik Pohl". Publishers Weekly. 2005-10-17. Retrieved 2024-10-12.
3. "Platinum Pohl". Booklist. 2005-12-01. Retrieved 2024-10-11.