The Fiend

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Frederik Pohl, literary agent emeritus, current editor of Galaxy magazine, author of superior science fiction, gentleman of erudition and charm, “is not afraid of emotion, so that his stories have a drive and power enviable in any writer, especially in one whose main outlet is science fiction.” So says The New York Times. His books include the stimulating collections “Tomorrow Times Seven” and “The Case Against Tomorrow,” the novel “Slave Ship” and, with the late C. M. Kornbluth, such novels as “Gladiator-at-Law,” “Search the Sky” and “The Space Merchants” an admonitory satire on future ad-men, which Anthony Boucher calls “a book so rewarding that it should henceforth show up on all lists of science-fiction ‘classics” which Kingsley Amis says “has many claims to being the best science-fiction novel so far” and which, as this anthology goes to press, has been purchased by the movie moguls for a whopping five-figure sum. In his playboy story, “The Fiend,” Pohl takes a standard sci-fi staple—suspended animation of space passengers during long interstellar voyages—and brings to it a fresh idea and a surprising twist.

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