Yesterday's Tomorrows: Favorite Stories from Forty Years as a Science Fiction Editor

by Frederik Pohl (Editor / Contributor)

Frederid Pohl's Yesterday's Tomorrows: Favorite Stories from Forty Years As a Science Fiction Editor. Science-fiction stories by authors such as Isaac Asimov, Fritz Leiber, and Harlan Ellison, and more...explore travel in outer space, advances in technology, and the world of the future. Among his many awards, Pohl won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 2010, for his blog, "The Way the Future Blogs".
Contents:
Introduction (Yesterday's Tomorrows) (1982) • essay by Frederik Pohl
The Nine Billion Names of God (1953) / short story by Arthur C. Clarke
The Moon Moth (1961) / novelette by Jack Vance
The Man with English (1953) / short story by H. L. Gold [as by Horace L. Gold]
Into the Darkness [Darkness] (1940) / novelette by Ross Rocklynne
The Halfling [Earth] (1943) / novelette by Leigh Brackett
Strange Playfellow (1940) / short story by Isaac Asimov
Space-Time for Springers [Gummitch the Cat] (1958) / short story by Fritz Leiber
Emergency Refueling (1940) / short story by James Blish
The Coldest Place [Known Space] (1964) / short story by Larry Niven
The Life Hater [Berserker] (1964) / short story by Fred Saberhagen
The Embassy (1942) / short story by Donald A. Wollheim [as by (pseudonym) Martin Pearson
]The Last Flight of Dr. Ain (1969) / short story by James Tiptree, Jr.
Sweet Dreams, Melissa (1968) / short story by Stephen Goldin
Street of Dreams, Feet of Clay (1967) / novelette by Robert Sheckley
Among the Bad Baboons (1968) / novelette by Mack Reynolds
Slow Tuesday Night (1965) / short story by R. A. Lafferty
The Pain Peddlers (1963) / short story by Robert Silverberg
At the Mouse Circus (1971) / short story by Harlan Ellison
The Rull [Rull] (1948) / novelette by A. E. van Vogt
The Ballad of Lost C'mell [The Instrumentality of Mankind] (1962) / novelette by Cordwainer Smith
The Monster (1951) / short story by Lester del Rey
Oh, to Be a Blobel! (1964) / novelette by Philip K. Dick
Without Doubt (1941) / short story by Robert A. Heinlein and Elma Wentz (variant of Beyond Doubt) [as by (pseudonym) Lyle Monroe and Elma Wentz]
A Gentle Dying (1961) / short story by C. M. Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl
The Great Slow Kings (1963) / short story by Roger Zelazny
Old Testament (1964) / short story by Jerome Bixby
Eco-Catastrophe! (1969) / short story by Paul R. Ehrlich
Guinevere for Everybody (1955) / short story by Jack Williamson
A Bad Day for Vermin (1964) / short story by Keith Laumer
Let There Be Light [Future History] (1940) / short story by Robert A. Heinlein
Excerpt from Dragon Lensman (1980) / short fiction by David A. Kyle
Excerpt from Dhalgren (1974) / short fiction by Samuel R. Delany
Excerpt from The Short-Timers (1979) / short fiction by Gustav Hasford
Interstellar Way-Station (1941) / short story by Wilson Tucker [as by Wilson Bob Tucker]
The Report on the Barnhouse Effect (1950) / short story by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Afterword (Yesterday's Tomorrows) (1982) • essay by Frederik Pohl
The Paperbacks: 1971-1978 (1982) • essay by Frederik Pohl
The Galaxy and If Years: 1960-1969 (1982) • essay by Frederik Pohl
The Anthologies (1982) • essay by Frederik Pohl
The Pulps: 1939-1943 (1982) • essay by Frederik Pohl
The Fanzines: 1933-1939 (1982) • essay by Frederik Pohl
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431 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 1982

About the author

Frederik George Pohl, Jr. was an American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning over seventy years. From about 1959 until 1969, Pohl edited Galaxy magazine and its sister magazine IF winning the Hugo for IF three years in a row. His writing also won him three Hugos and multiple Nebula Awards. He became a Nebula Grand Master in 1993.

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