The Abominable Earthman
Cover artist: Richard Powers
Publisher: Ballantine
Pub year: 1963
Cover price: 50¢
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Cover artist: Richard Powers
Publisher: Ballantine
Pub year: 1963
Cover price: 50¢
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A new collection by a master of science fiction
Frederik Pohl writes top-flight science fiction in so many areas that it is sometimes difficult to select what is best among such thickets of barbed humor. Nevertheless in the course of ten years, Ballantine Books has managed to publish six collections of pure, undiluted Frederik Pohl:
Alternating Currents
The Case Against Tomorrow
Tomorrow Times Seven
The Man Who Ate the World
Turn Left at Thursday
And now
The Abominable Earthman
Anyone lucky enough to have obtained the above now owns many stories which have become classics in the field (not to mention his novels, since they are mentioned inside). And, for three good reasons, there will be more.
Because Mr. Pohl continues to write...
Because we are firmly devoted to the best in science fiction...
And because we are particularly enchanted with a future which envisions us wandering hand-in-hand with Fred Pohl into the slightly acidulated sunset of his wonderful imagination.
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In which, with characteristic satire, Fred Pohl deals with:
The over-population problem
An extra-terrestrial observer who is delighted to find that hunters on Earth are terribly sporting
Mars
What happens to the Sirians when they invade Earth
Human cussedness
A scientist with a conscience
And a most peculiar impregnation
Contents
The Abominable Earthman
We Never Mention Aunt Nora
A Life and a Half
Punch
The Martian Star-Gazers
Whatever Counts
Three Portraits and A Prayer