Final Encounter

Galaxy Reader #8

by Frederik Pohl (Editor)

If There Were No Benny Cemoli • (1963) • novelette by Philip K. Dick
Hot Planet • (1963) • short story by Hal Clement
A Day on Death Highway • (1963) • novelette by H. Chandler Elliott
Comic Inferno • (1963) • novelette by Brian W. Aldiss
Final Encounter • (1964) • novelette by Harry Harrison
The End of the Race • (1964) • short story by Albert Bermel
And All the Earth a Grave • (1963) • short story by C. C. MacApp
The Lonely Man • (1963) • novelette by Theodore L. Thomas
Dawningsburgh • (1962) • short story by Wallace West
Critical Mass • (1962) • novelette by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth
The Big Engine • (1962) • short story by Fritz Leiber
A Bad Day for Vermin • (1964) • short story by Keith Laumer
The Varieties of the Science-Fiction Experience • essay by Frederik Pohl

Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories

223 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1965

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.

Reviews

[Craig · Rating 3 out of 5]

The paperback edition of The Eighth Galaxy Reader edited by Frederik Pohl was printed with a different title, Final Encounter, for reasons now forgotten, and certainly led to confusion for bibliographers. The volume includes a dozen stories from Galaxy Magazine from the early half of the 1960s, during which time Pohl himself was the editor. I liked Hot Planet by Hal Clement the best, and thought the stories by Harry Harrison and Philip K. Dick were also good, as well as Pohl's posthumous collaboration with C.M. Kornbluth, Critical Mass.

[RC · Rating 3 out of 5]

A collection of 1960s tales of variable quality.