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Cool, classical in form, grave and raw.
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- rawmeticulous
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- Frederik Pohl
- First published
- 1984
- Pages
- 375
- Publisher
- Pocket, Timescape Books, Distributed by Simon and Schuster
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780671460471
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Frederik Pohl, Jr. was born in Brooklyn, New York. His father held a number of jobs, and his family moved many times in his childhood before settling in Brooklyn when he was about seven. He attended Brooklyn Tech high school, but dropped out and took a job to help support his family. As a teen, he founded the New York science fiction writer's group The Futurians. His first publication, a poem, appeared in Amazing Stories in 1937, when he was 18 years old. In 1936, he joined the Young Communist League and became President of the Brooklyn branch, but he left it in 1939 after Stalin-Hitler pact. In 1939, at the age of 21, he was editor of both Super Science Stories and Astonishing Stories, and
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