Sadly, another pulp fictioneer is gone.
Frederik Pohl died Monday, Sept. 2, 2013, at the age of 93.
His granddaughter Emily Pohl-Weary reported his passing on Twitter.
Pohl was one of the founders of the Futurians, a science-fiction fan group in New York, in the 1930s, and published an SF fanzine, Mind of Man.
His first professionally published work was a poem, “Elegy to a Dead Satellite: Luna,” which appeared in the October 1937 number of Amazing Stories under the pseudonymous credit of Elton Andrews. He continued writing short stories and novels for the SF pulps, including Astounding, Super Science Stories, Astonishing Stories and Planet Stories, throughout the 1940s and ’50s.
In 1939 at age 19, Pohl landed the job of editor of Astonishing Stories and Super Science Stories for Popular Publications. He also edited the digests Galaxy and If for 10 years beginning in 1959. Pohl’s last novel, “All the Lives He Led,” was published in 2011.
In 1993, Pohl was named a Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master, and inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 1998. He was a Pulpcon guest of honor in 1992.
Updated: Sept. 3, 2013
