Frederik Pohl

Frederik Pohl was an American science-fiction writer, editor and fan whose career ran from his first published poem in 1937 to the 2011 novel All the Lives He Led. From about 1959 to 1969 he edited Galaxy and its sister magazine If, which won three successive Hugo Awards. His novel Gateway, the first of the Heechee Saga, won both a Hugo and a Nebula Award, and he co-wrote The Space Merchants with Cyril M. Kornbluth. Pohl died in 2013.