Adventures in Time and Space - Frederik Pohl

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Résumé :
Frederik Pohl's Adventures in Time and Space gathers fast-moving classic science fiction from one of the sharpest minds in twentieth-century speculative writing. These stories move through the familiar pleasures of Golden Age and post-Golden Age SF: strange technologies, dangerous futures, altered societies, spacefaring risks, time-bending possibilities, and human beings forced to think faster than the worlds changing around them. Pohl's fiction is energetic and idea-driven, but it also carries the wit, social intelligence, and sceptical eye that made him more than a simple adventure writer. Across his science fiction, Pohl repeatedly returns to systems under pressure: economies, governments, corporations, technologies, and ordinary people caught inside machinery larger than themselves. In a compact collection such as this, that range becomes part of the appeal. The stories offer adventure, speculation, and surprise, while also showing the early contours of a writer who would become central to modern science fiction as author, editor, agent, and critic. This Positronic edition presents Adventures in Time and Space for readers interested in classic science fiction, time travel, space adventure, speculative short stories, and the magazine tradition that shaped American SF. For those following Frederik Pohl's work beyond his best-known novels, this volume offers a brisk and accessible doorway into his shorter fiction. Explore other exciting Positronic Books devoted to classic science fiction, fantasy, and mystery....

Biographie:
Frederik Pohl (1919-2013) was an American science fiction writer, editor, agent, anthologist, critic, and one of the most important figures in the development of modern speculative fiction. His career stretched from the pulp era through the New Wave and beyond, giving him an unusually broad influence on the field. As a writer, he combined sharp social satire, technological speculation, political awareness, and strong narrative drive...

Sommaire:
Frederik Pohl's Adventures in Time and Space gathers fast-moving classic science fiction from one of the sharpest minds in twentieth-century speculative writing. These stories move through the familiar pleasures of Golden Age and post-Golden Age SF: strange technologies, dangerous futures, altered societies, spacefaring risks, time-bending possibilities, and human beings forced to think faster than the worlds changing around them. Pohl's fiction is energetic and idea-driven, but it also carries the wit, social intelligence, and sceptical eye that made him more than a simple adventure writer. Across his science fiction, Pohl repeatedly returns to systems under pressure: economies, governments, corporations, technologies, and ordinary people caught inside machinery larger than themselves. In a compact collection such as this, that range becomes part of the appeal. The stories offer adventure, speculation, and surprise, while also showing the early contours of a writer who would become central to modern science fiction as author, editor, agent, and critic. This Positronic edition presents Adventures in Time and Space for readers interested in classic science fiction, time travel, space adventure, speculative short stories, and the magazine tradition that shaped American SF. For those following Frederik Pohl's work beyond his best-known novels, this volume offers a brisk and accessible doorway into his shorter fiction. Explore other exciting Positronic Books devoted to classic science fiction, fantasy, and mystery....