The Way the Future Was

Frederik Pohl

Original title: The Way The Future Was

earliest edition we have, 1978 Granada, 1983 318 pages

Pohl is known today as a Silver-to-Golden-Age science fiction writer, but during his development in the craft became one of its first significant publishers and literary agents. Together with John W. Campbell he is often considered to have launched the science fiction publishing industry. He knew, worked with and sometimes represented Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein and dozens of other household names of the genre.

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The way the future was edition · 1983 · Granada · 318 pages
The Way the Future Was paperback · 1979 · Del Rey · 293 pages · 9780345260598
The Way The Future Was hardcover · 1979 · Victor Gollancz Ltd · 256 pages · 9780575026728
The way the future was hardcover · 1978 · Ballantine Books · 312 pages

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