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| I have been encountering his name for the past few weeks now, most on the random reads, and considering this multiple award winning author, I would like to experience one or some of his best works. Unfortunately, only one of his books is listed in the WWE database which is also available at my library: The boy who would live forever. Considering this is Book 5 of the Gateway series, I believe it would not make sense to start with this one. If anybody has a recommendation, here are the others I have available: - The Far Shore of Time
- The Last Theorem /with Arthur C. Clarke
- Mining the Sort
- The Other End of Time
- Platinum Pohl: Collected Best Stories
- The Siege of Eternity
- The Voices of Heaven
- The World at the End of Time
As per Wiki, the Eschaton Trilogy seems complete. With many thanks. |
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Location: Boston, MA | no recommendations as i haven't read any of these books. just wanted to point out that there're multiple works of the author at wwe - http://www.worldswithoutend.com/author.asp?ID=26 not only one
Edited by hihik 2010-05-03 7:57 PM
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Location: Dallas, Texas | I've read four books in the Heechee Saga and liked them all. Gateway is my favorite Pohl book so far. I've got The Boy Who Would Live Forever in my reading stack, to finish out the series, along with: It's funny, I did not realize I had so many of his books on hand! I don't know anything about the other books on your available list but I'd go with Platinum Pohl to get a feel for his style. You can try a few shorts and if you don't like it you can bail. His short fiction is pretty highly regarded.
Pohl has a pretty good blog you can check out too: http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/
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| Great idea since you said his shorts are highly regarded. I'll go with Platinum Pohl first. It's also pretty funny that on his blog you linked, the three books illustrated are in my list. Now, what are the probabilities of that? |
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Location: The Netherlands | I read and reviewed Platinum Pohl a while ago. Some very good stories in that collection and most of them have aged gracefully. |
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| Thanks for the confirmation Val. |
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Location: Dallas, Texas | valashain - 2010-05-20 1:20 PM I read and reviewed Platinum Pohl a while ago. Some very good stories in that collection and most of them have aged gracefully. How about a link to your review?
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Location: The Netherlands | Here you go 
http://valsrandomcomments.blogspot.com/2010/01/platinum-pohl-freder... |
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Location: Massillon, Ohio | I would start with Man Plus then move on to Gateway and the rest of the Heechee books. That is the approach i am taking to Pohl.
Edited by ThomasBa2 2011-10-24 6:15 PM
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