The Best Of Frederik Pohl

The Story

Book club original publication, reprinted by Ballantine / Del Rey as a mass market paperback in June 1975. 1976 Locus Poll Award, Best Single Author Collection (Place: 14). Contents: Introduction, 'A Variety of Excellence,' by Lester del Rey; stories by Pohl: The Tunnel Under the World; Punch; Three Portraits and a Prayer; Day Million; Happy Birthday, Dear Jesus; We Never Mention Aunt Nora; Father of the Stars; The Day the Martians Came; The Midas Plague; The Snowmen; How to Count on Your Fingers; Grandy Devil; Speed Trap; The Richest Man in Levittown; The Day the Icicle Works Closed; The Hated; The Martian in the Attic; The Census Takers; The Children of the Night; and Afterword: What the Author Has to Say about All This, by Frederik Pohl.